Thackeray was probably right in his belief that "the cleverest tutors in the world could have done little probably to expand that small intellect, though they might have improved his taste and taught his perceptions some generosity."[99] [97] Russia, _The Maiden Queen_; Germany, _The Rivals_; Genoa, _All's Well that Ends Well_; Spain, _The Ambitious Stepmother_; Prussia, _The Inconstant, or, The Way to Win Him_; France, _The Busy-Body, Rather the Way of the World_; Sweden, _She Would if She Could_; Denmark, _As You Like It_; The Dutch, _The Medley; or, Nature Will Prevail_; Flanders, _How Happy Could She Be With Either_; King of Sardinia, _The Spartan Hero_; Stanislaus, _An Old Man Taught Wisdom_; Don Philip, _Much Ado About Nothing_; The Young Pretender, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. [98] _Recollections and Reflections._ [99] _The Four Georges._ Yet those who expected the worst from the new King were pleasurably disappointed, for, though he never became a great monarch, he developed unsuspected good qualities. In earlier days his indolence had brought upon him a severe reproof from George Scott, who, when his Royal Highness excused his own want of application on the score of idleness, said, cruelly perhaps, but certainly with truth: "Sir, _yours_ is not idleness; your brother Edward is _idle_, but you must not call being asleep all day being idle." On his accession to the throne, George III became suddenly industrious, at once endeavoured to understand public business, and showed himself willing to learn. Indeed, he had always been desirous to improve his mind, and it has been told how when he and Prince Edward once went by water to Woolwich he did not make a _gala_ day of it, as his brother did, and as most other boys would have, "but paid a marked attention to everything useful and curious, taking a view of the several works in the dockyard, seeing the manner of forging an anchor, or making sails, etc."[100] [100] Galt: _George III, his Court and Family_.