The marriage being solemnized, home they came in order as before and to dinner they went where was no want of good cheare, no lack of melody....

The wedding endured ten dayes, to the great reliefe of the poore that dwelt all about.[10] Much dancing the house doubtless saw under the beautiful carved roof of the hall, with much song, games, kissing, and general abandon.

Even when the bride and groom retired to the bridal chamber with its roll-moulded beams the merry-making was not done; they must hold a levee to their nearest friends in the bedchamber itself, enthroned in the great four-poster bed.

There was no false delicacy about our ancestors.
Indeed, as Henry Bullinger says (he was a very different person from jovial Deloney, but he was a contemporary of Paycocke's, and Coverdale translated him, so let him speak): 'After supper must they begynne to pype and daunce agayne of the new.

And though the yonge parsones, beynge weery of the bablyng noyse and inconuenience, come ones towarde theyer rest, yet can they haue no quietnesse.