A witty prologue sets the tone for this Restoration comedy of masks, bargains, and romantic confusion, mocking fashionable emptiness and the appetite for noise over substance. At the center is Sir Timothy Tawdrey, a vain, money-minded fop who plans to marry Celinda for convenience while still pursuing pleasure, only to discover that she loves Bellmour and has little patience for his pompous courtship. Around them swirl sharp-tongued servants, jealous guardians, secret meetings, disguised passions, and comic reversals that expose the absurdity of forced marriage and social hypocrisy. As Bellmour and Friendlove clash over true affection versus mercenary love, the play widens into a lively web of intrigue involving Sir Cautious, Sir Feeble, Leticia, Diana, Bredwel, and Bearjest. Nighttime visits, elopement schemes, ghostly fears, gambling losses, and outrageous bargains push the action toward chaos, while the characters' vanity, lust, and greed repeatedly undo them. In the end, the tangled relationships are resolved through forgiveness, divorce, and new matches, transforming disorder into a sharp-edged comic triumph. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.