so2 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

chap. the pope some privileges for the English schoolIII. erected there , he engaged all the princes, throughwhose dominions he was obliged to pass, todesist from those heavy impositions and tolls,which they were accustomed to exact from theEnglish pilgrims. By this spirit of devotion, noless than by his equitable and politic administra-tion , he gained, in a good measure , the affectionsof his subjects.

Cansjte , the greatest and most powerful mon-arch of his time, sovereign of Denmark andNorway, as well as of England, could not fail ofmeeting with adulation from his courtiers; atribute which is liberally paid even to the mean-est and weakest princes. Some of his flatterersbreaking out, one clay, in admiration of hisgrandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possiblefor him: Upon which the monarch, it is said,ordered his chair to be set on the sea-store, whilethe tide was rising; and as the waters approached ,he commanded them to retire, and to obey thevoice of him who was lord of the ocean. He feign-ed to sit some time in expectation of their sub-mission; but when the sea still advanced towardshim, and began to was) him with its billows,he turned to his courtiers, and remarked to them ,that every creature in the universe was feebleand impotent, and that power resided with oneBeing alone, in whose hands were all the elementsof nature; who could fay to the ocean , Thus furshalt thou go s and no farther $ and who could