The Ten Pleasures of Marriage Part 8

_Your very humble servant_

A.B.

THE

CONFESSION

OF THE

NEW MARRIED COUPLE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE CONFESSION OF THE NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE LONDON, PRINTED in the JEAR 1683.

_Published by The Navarre Society, London._]

THE

CONFESSION

OF THE

NEW MARRIED COUPLE,

Being

The Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.

Relating

_The further delights and contentments that ly masked under the bands of Wedlock._

Written by _A. Marsh._ Typogr.

[Ill.u.s.tration]

LONDON,

Printed in the year 1683.

TO THE READER.

Courteous Reader,

_Thy kind acceptance of the First Part, hath incouraged me to go forward with a Second, which I here present thee with; being now indifferently confident that it will be no worse used by Thee then the Brother of it was: I hope there is never a Part of it, in which thou wilt not find somthing that will please thy Fancy: But for such as profess to be of the zealousest sort of people, and make use of the gestur of casting up the whites of their eys, when they intend to tell you a notorious ly, I would not have them to study in it, by reason it speaks a great deal of truth, and will not be so suitable to their humors; because it is a bundle of matter that is scrambled together, which could not be wrapt up in such clean linnen, or drest up in such_ holding forth _Language and pious hypocrisie, as such generally make use of: It is only fit for truehearted Souls that will solace their Spirits with a little laughter, and never busie their brains with the subversion of State and Church government: And being well received by such, it is as much as is expected by him who is thine. Farewell._

THE

CONFESSION

OF THE

NEW MARRIED COUPLE,

_Being_

The Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.

INTRODUCTION.

It is an inexpressible pleasure for Travellers, when after many traverses and tossings too and again, they return quietly home to their studies and rememorates all the unexpected pleasure that they encountred with upon the one Coast, and the horrible vexations and confusions that they had upon another. And the very penning thereof, doth, as it were anew, repossess them of all the pleasures, and conveyeth them through all the Countries, without so much as the least moving of a foot. Just so it goes with those that have been under the Bands of Matrimony, and are loosed from them: These being then come to be solitary, at rest, and in quiet, can the more seriously rememorate and recogitate what pleasures they injoied at one, and what thwartings and crosses they met with at other times. And the writing down of these, doth not only afresh regenerate in them the received pleasures; but serves also for a Looking-gla.s.s to all married Couples, for them to recogitate what pleasures they have already received, and what joys are still approaching towards them. And for those which as yet know not the sweetness of the Nuptial estate, it serves for a Fire-Beacon that they may with all earnestness Sail unto it, and possess those joys also. Of those we have before demonstrated unto you Ten Pleasant Tables: But because the Scale of Marriage may hang somwhat evener, and not fall too light on the womens side, we shall for the Courteous Reader add unto them Ten Pleasures more, being that which some Married people have since confessed, or to be short with you, was formerly wink'd at, and pa.s.sed over.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 9 _Published by The Navarre Society, London._]