[77] The substitution of one person for another in the marriage ceremony, or a false marriage, are favorite devices of Congreve. See, for instance, The Old Bachelor and Love for Love.
[78] The Elder Brother and The Custom of the Country.
[79] Rutilio’s sojourn with Sulpita. The Custom of the Country, III, iii; IV, iv.
[80] Which Vanbrugh portrayed in his play, The Relapse (1697).
[81] The comic scenes from Marriage a la Mode and The Maiden Queen.
[82] Centlivre, Love at a Venture; Burnaby, The Ladies Visiting Day, and The Reformed Wife.
[83] The Ladies Visiting Day.
[84] Love for Love, II, xi.
[85] To the Reader, The Provoked Husband.
[86] Cibber’s Lives of the Poets, IV, 120; Wilks, A General View of the Stage, p. 42.