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Updated: January 25, 2026

There she sees Mistres Breedwell making ready her Child-bed linnens and getting of her Clouts together. Yonder Mistris Maudlen complains that she doth not prove with child; & then Mistres Young-at-it brags how nearly she could reckon from the very bed-side.

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