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Ly represent it but a Commedye." A letter written on the same day by Sir
John Finet mentions the projected marriage of Sir Edward Coke's daughter
with Sir John Villiers, who would have L2,000 a year from Buckingham,
and be left heir of his lands, as he was already of his Earldom, failing
the Earl's male issue. He adds that Sir Edward Coke went cheerily to
visit the Queen, and that the common people said he would die Lord
Treasurer. Such gossip as that must have been anything but amusing to
Bacon. The Coke-Villiers engagement had now become almost, if not quite,
a State affair. Nearly three weeks later Sir Horace Vere wrote to
Carleton:--[25] "