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Title: The Pleasures of matrimony intermix'd with variety of merry and delightful stories : containing the charms and contentments of wooing and wedlock in all its injoyments, recreations, and divertisements.
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Print source: The Pleasures of matrimony intermix'd with variety of merry and delightful stories : containing the charms and contentments of wooing and wedlock in all its injoyments, recreations, and divertisements.
London: Printed by A.G. for Henry Rhodes, 1688.
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TO THE READERS, BOTH MALE and FEMALE.
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INTRODUCTION.
I. The Comforts of Wooing.
II. The Match concluded, and the Wedding kept, with all the Pomp and Splendor that accompanies it, and the various Discourses thereupon.
III. Of House-Keeping Expence: Together with several pleasant Digressions.
IV. Visiting Friends, and going into the Coun∣try, with an Account of the Entertainment and pleasant Divertisements and Discourses thereupon.
V. Great Complaints for want of Children, the Wife Complains to her Neighbours, and the ill Consequences of it; together with the several Instructions the good Wo∣men, her Neighbours, give her in order to her Procreation.
VI. The Young Woman proves with Child, with an Account of the Lying in, and how the young Springal is overjoyed at his Wives making him a Father.
VII. Provision for lying in, and the Appurte∣nances belonging to it, with other Remarks fit to be known by a young Man that intends to alter his Condition.
VIII. The Woman falls in Labour, is happily Deliver'd, with a Mess of the Gossips Dis∣course therupon.
IX. The Woman is laid, and what follows after that, as to their Entertainment, &c.
X. The Gossips Invited, together with some of the Pleasant and Jocular Discourse that passes amongst them.
XI. The Child comes to be Coated, the Child grows froward, and the Inconveniency of VVet-Nurses.
XII. The Daughters grow up and want Por∣tions, and what follows thereupon.
XIII. The Woman Cuckolds her Husband.
XIV. The Wife falls Sick.
XV. The Man falls Sick, and Dies: Upon which, the Woman sets up for a Widow, pricking out our self to the best advantage, to get her another Husband.
XVI. A True and Accurate Description Poor and Comfortless Wedlock.
XVII. Of Charms and Philters, what they are, and the wonderful Effects wrought by them.
There is lately Printed for Henry Rhodes, next door to the Swan Tavern, near Bride-Lane, in Fleet-street, the following Books.