th'absence

Updated: May 17, 2025

All this while they both laugh in their sleeves, that each one, in th'absence of the t'other, hath taken to themselves such a private an cunning pleasure. Finding so much content and injoiment therein, that they both hope to serve themselves again with the like occasion. O mighty Pleasure of Marriage! Who would not but be invited to go into this estate?

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