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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682), by A. Marsh This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) Author: A. Marsh Release Date: October 26, 2004 [EBook #13872] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEN PLEASURES *** Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Victoria Woosley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team [Illustration: THE TEN PLEASURES OF MARRIAGE Printed at London 1682 Published by the Navarre Society London] 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_ _Printed in Great Britain_ * * * * * INTRODUCTION The Restoration brought back to England something more than a king and the theatre. It renewed in English life the robust vitality of humour which had been repressed under the Commonwealth--though, in spite of repression, there were, even among the Puritan divines, men like the author of _Joanereidos_, whose self-expression ran the whole gamut from freedom to licentiousness. It is a curious thing, that fundamental English humour. It can be vividly concentrated into a single word, as when, for instance, the chronicler of _The Ten Pleasures of Marriage_ revives the opprobrious term for a tailor--"pricklouse": the whole history of the English
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