What a nest of Singing Geniuses, these foster Children of Coke and Ascham were....

These are miniature portraits, such as the Elizabethans, curiously, excelled in, of the 18-year-old Francis Bacon (above), and the 12-year-old Edward Tudor (below).  Around the image of the Bacon stripling, the miniaturist has written in Latin "If only I could depict this boy's mind!"  Imagine.

And of course we all agree that young Edward's only fault was not to have lived six more years, so that we might have been spared the reign of his god-awful oldest half-sister, Mary.