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The word honeymoon relates to the sweetness of the period just after marriage and how this will not last very long. The connection with honey, mead, drinking, etc. is a Victorian myth. https://www.etymonline.com/word/honeymoon#etymonline_v_12142 https://archive.org/details/everythingyoukno0000broh https://books.google.de/books?id=avDXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA352&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88181 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-dialogue-conteinyng-th_heywood-john_1561 https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=a30&datum=1774&pos=37&size=25 https://archive.org/details/etymologicalcom00pullgoog
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