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.

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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.

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THE

CONFESSION

OF THE

NEW MARRIED COUPLE,

Being

The Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage.

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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;