Part 2 — INSCRIPTION
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For the DUKE OF RICHMOND's Bust to the Memory of the late MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM.
Hail, marble! happy in a double end! Raised to departed principles and friend: The friend once gone, no principles would stay: For very grief, they wept themselves away! Let no harsh censure such conjunction blame, Since join'd in life, their fates should be the same. Therefore from death they feel a common sting, And HEAV'N receives the one, and one the K—G.