The Ten Pleasures of Marriage

About this eBook

Author

Marsh, A.

Title

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple

Credits

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Victoria Woosley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Marriage

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13872

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13872

Release Date

October 26, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE TEN PLEASURES OF MARRIAGE — AND THE SECOND PART — THE CONFESSION OF THE NEW MARRIED COUPLE
2. 2.Contents — THE TEN PLEASURES OF MARRIAGE — AND THE SECOND PART — THE CONFESSION OF THE NEW MARRIED COUPLE — ATTRIBUTED TO — APHRA BEHN — REPRINTED WITH AN INTRODUCTION — BY — JOHN HARVEY — AND THE ORIGINAL TWENTY PLATES — AND TWO ENGRAVED TITLES — RE-ENGRAVED — LONDON: MCMXXII — PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE NAVARRE SOCIETY LIMITED
3. 3.INTRODUCTION — JOHN HARVEY.
4. 4.Publisher's Preface — THE TEN — PLEASURES — OF — MARRIAGE, — Relating — All the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of Matrimony. — Written by A. MARSH, Typogr. — LONDON, — Printed in the Year, 1682. — To the READER. — The Ten PLEASURES Of MARRIAGE.
5. 5.THE FIRST PLEASURE. — The Consent is given, the Match concluded, and the Wedding kept .
6. 6.THE SECOND PLEASURE.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.THE FOURTH PLEASURE. — The Wife goes a pratling by her Neighbours; complaining of her barrenness, and takes Physick for it .
9. 9.THE FIFTH PLEASURE. — The young Woman proves with Child, and longs.
10. 10.THE SIXTH PLEASURE. — Care is taking for the Child and Child-bed linnen; and to provide a Midwife and Nurse.
11. 11.THE SEVENTH PLEASURE. — The Woman falls in Labour .
12. 12.THE EIGHTH PLEASURE. — The Womans brought to bed .
13. 13.THE NINTH PLEASURE. — Of the Gossips Feast .
14. 14.THE TENTH PLEASURE. — A great Child-bed Feast is kept, and the Child put in Cloaths .
15. 15.Conclusion. — The End of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.
16. 16.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,
17. 17.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. — LONDON, — To the READER. — The — CONFESSION — Of the — New Married Couple, — Being
18. 18.The Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.
19. 19.INTRODUCTION.
20. 20.The First Pleasure. — The young Couple begin to keep Shop, and demand their promised Portion .
21. 21.The Second Pleasure. — The Husband grows Pipsy; and keeps the first Lying-in: Takes the Doctors advice. Is mocked by his Pot-Companions.
22. 22.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.
23. 23.The Fourth Pleasure. — The Wife will be Master of the Cash, or mony Chest.
24. 24.The Fifth Pleasure. — Of Mens negligence of their affairs; whereby their Antic-tricks and loss of time is discovered .
25. 25.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.
26. 26.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.
27. 27.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.
28. 28.The Ninth Pleasure. — Of base conditioned Maid-servants.
29. 29.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. — The End of the Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.

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