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The poet's effigies lies in a careless posture on one side, 

 and on the other is placed this epitaph : 



Ingenio 

 Acri, faceto, expolito, 

 Moribusque 

 Urbanis, candidis, facillimis, 



GULIELMI CONGREVE; 



Hoc 



Qualecunque desiderii sui 

 Solamen simul ac 



Monumentum 

 Posuit Cobham. 



MDCCXXXVI. 



To the sprightly, entertaining, elegant 

 Wit, 



and the polished, candid, easy 



Manners, 

 Of William Congreve; 

 This, 



in some sort a consolation, 

 and a memorial of his affectionate regret, 

 was erected by 

 Cobham. 



Opposite to this Monument a spring flows from a marble 

 Vase into the Lake. 



The Gardens contain above five hundred Acres. 



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