If the sphere of his action seems too small to justify the comparison of him with the few whom the world owns as its greatest men, he rises to their level in the moral grandeur of his life.

And it is this which has hallowed his memory among his own English people.

"I desire," said the King in some of his latest words, "I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works." His aim has been more than fulfilled.

His memory has come down to us with a living distinctness through the mists of exaggeration and legend which time gathered round it.

The instinct of the people has clung to him with a singular affection.