Child-bed

Therefore make much of your self, and toss up your glasses stoutly at the Wine-Cask; who knows whether you may have the opportunity this twelve month again to meet with such a good Nurse-keeping; a liquorish sweet-tooth'd Child-bed woman, & a plentifull housekeeping, is not every where.

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

They have scarce wiped their mouths or digested the Child-bed Wine in their stomacks, before there starts up a new day of mirth & jollity; for now there must be a Child-bed feast kept & the child must be put in Cloaths.

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

In the mean while Peg runs too and again, almost like one out of her sences, to hunt for the Nurse, who dwels in a little street upon a back-Chamber, or in an Ally, or some other by-place; and she is just now no where else to be found but at t'other end of the City, there keeping another Gentle woman in Child-bed.

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

O new Father, what a Pleasure must all these things be for you; and especially, because now you begin at the Bed-side to eat and drink again with your Child-bed wife; and you begin also to perceive that if all things advance as they hitherto have done, you may then again in few daies make fresh assaults of hugging and embracing her.

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

Do you your self but observe, & you'l quickly see that a lying-in requireth so much trimming, that she hath really care enough upon her! the Child-bed linnen alone, is a thing that would make ones head full of dizziness, it consists of so many sorts of knick-knacks; I will not so much as name all the other jinkombobs that are dependances to it.

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

_A great Child-bed Feast is kept, and the Child put in Cloaths.

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

There she sees Mistres _Breedwell_ making ready her Child-bed linnens and getting of her Clouts together.

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

O thrice happy new Father that have gotten such a prudent diligent and carefull Nurse for your Child-bed wife! what great Pleasure is this!

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

Child-bed linnen as it ought to be! how diligently she measures the

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

But it is much better for him, if, according as the occasion gives opportunity, there be now and then spoken something concerning the Child-bed woman, or about the shaking of the sheets, which is seldom forgotten; because he is now already so far advanced in the

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