We can hardly wonder that foremost among them was Coke.
This was the end of the long rivalry between Bacon and Coke, from the time that Essex pressed Bacon against Coke in vain to the day when Bacon as Chancellor drove Coke from his seat for his bad law, and as Privy Councillor ordered him to be prosecuted in the Star Chamber for riotously breaking open men's doors to get his daughter.

The two men thoroughly disliked and undervalued one another.

Coke made light of Bacon's law.

Bacon saw clearly Coke's narrowness and ignorance out of that limited legal sphere in which he was supposed to know everything, his prejudiced and interested use of his knowledge, his coarseness and insolence.

But now in Parliament Coke was supreme, "our Hercules," as his friends said.