The Ten Pleasures of Marriage: and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married CoupleMarsh, A.
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The Ten Pleasures of Marriage: and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Marsh, A.
Marriage
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-glass 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 passed over.
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[Illustration: 9 _Published by The Navarre Society, London._]
THE FIRST PLEASURE.
_The young Couple begin to keep Shop, and demand their promised
Portion._
Till now, O new Married Couple, you have passed through the First part
of your Wedlock with feasting and pleasures, and have injoied no smal
delights in it. But what is there in this World that we grow not weary
of? You have seen that the sumptuosest Feast full of delicate dishes,
and the pleasurablest Country Scituations, with al their rich fruits,
finally cloggeth, through the continual injoyment of them.
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