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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

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[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_

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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