After Prospero has given the lovers his blessing, he and Ferdinand talk with surprising frankness about her virginity and the pleasures of the marriage bed while she stands quietly by.
I cannot compose anything,I am closer to the coffin than the marriage bed.- from Glasgow
These ancient beds are so delicate that they can't be added. A new marriage bed has three floors from inside to outside. It's like a small room. It's really a red tapestry tent to warm up the Spring Festival Night.
Thus children who were not conceived in the marriage bed, were said to be conceived “on the bast” and were therefore bastards.
