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THE TEN PLEASURES OF MARRIAGE

THE CONFESSION OF THE NEW MARRIED COUPLE

APHRA BEHN

JOHN HARVEY

INTRODUCTION

Publisher's Preface

THE TEN

PLEASURES

OF

MARRIAGE,

Relating

All the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of Matrimony.

To the READER.

The Ten PLEASURES Of MARRIAGE.

THE FIRST PLEASURE.

The Consent is given, the Match concluded, and the Wedding kept .

THE SECOND PLEASURE.

THE THIRD PLEASURE.

The young couple walk daily abroad, being entertained and treated by all their friends and acquaintance; and then travell into the Country for their pleasure.

THE FOURTH PLEASURE.

The Wife goes a pratling by her Neighbours; complaining of her barrenness, and takes Physick for it .

THE FIFTH PLEASURE.

The young Woman proves with Child, and longs.

THE SIXTH PLEASURE.

Care is taking for the Child and Child-bed linnen; and to provide a Midwife and Nurse.

THE SEVENTH PLEASURE.

The Woman falls in Labour .

THE EIGHTH PLEASURE.

The Womans brought to bed .

THE NINTH PLEASURE.

Of the Gossips Feast .

THE TENTH PLEASURE.

A great Child-bed Feast is kept, and the Child put in Cloaths .

Conclusion.

A LETTER

From one Friend to another,

Desiring to know whether it be advisable to marry.

The

CONFESSION

Of the

New Married Couple.

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.

To the READER.

The

CONFESSION

Of the

New Married Couple,

Being

The Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.

INTRODUCTION.

The First Pleasure.

The young Couple begin to keep Shop, and demand their promised Portion .

The Second Pleasure.

The Husband grows Pipsy; and keeps the first Lying-in: Takes the Doctors advice. Is mocked by his Pot-Companions.

The Third Pleasure.

Whilest the Husband is from home, the Wife plaies the Divel for God's sake. The Husband upon his journy will want for nothing.

The Fourth Pleasure.

The Wife will be Master of the Cash, or mony Chest.

The Fifth Pleasure.

Of Mens negligence of their affairs; whereby their Antic-tricks and loss of time is discovered .

The Sixth Pleasure.

The Woman hath got the Breeches. What mischeefes arise by it. Counsel for the unmarried. To shun those that are evil natured.

The Seventh Pleasure.

The bad times teaches the new married Couple. Makes them brave housekeepers. They take in Lodgers, and give good examples to their Children.

The Eighth Pleasure.

The Parents would bring up their son in their way of Trade, but he hath no mind to't. He is put to School out of the City. Grows a Scholler, commits much mischief. Is apprehended and informed what a Schollerlike life is.

The Ninth Pleasure.

Of base conditioned Maid-servants.

The Tenth Pleasure.

An empty Purse, makes a sorrowfull Pate. The Husband grows jealous. And the Wife also. The Husband is weary of his wife, and seeks to be divorced.