WILLIAM IV (1765-1837). King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Autograph page from schoolboy writing book (unsigned), 1 page 4to (oblong), 17 August 1775. A six-line sentiment, in English in a fine copperplate hand.

Lines from The Country Maid and her Milk Pail

'When men suffer their imagination to
amuse them with the prospect of distant
and uncertain improvements of their
condition, they frequently sustain real
losses, by their inattention to those affairs
in which they are immediately concerned.'

£225 [No: 26198]