their friends will never look after them. Hitherto I have kept you up, concerning your intention; and further I give you no other advice, then what by your self you may take to your self. If you marry, you do well: but not marrying, you do better. And if you will incline to me, rather then to marry, you shall alwaies find me to be SIR _Your very humble servant_ A.B. * * * * * THE CONFESSION OF THE NEW MARRIED COUPLE. * * * * * [Illustration: 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. [Illustration] 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.