The English indeed loved the most honoured king in mind and in heart, who loved God. For virtue in fact drew on the earnestness of men to himself, as the wind draws together the clouds. And what was ever renowned among the many-voiced people, in which our wise king did not share? Alexander conquered many by arms, and all called him the Great on account of his virtues, he who subdued a great multitude of great-hearted men, though lesser in heart and not superior in all things.