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A52019 The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the ten pleasures of marriage relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock / written by A. Marsh. Typogr. Marsh, A. 1683 (1683) Wing M726; ESTC R18203 66,702 209

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