In this play's final act, Mincing reveals Mrs. Marwood's secret affair with Fainall, preventing him from stealing the fortune of Lady Wishfort.
This play ends with its protagonist asserting that "each deceiver to his cost may find / That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind." In the fourth act, the protagonist recites Edmund Waller's line "Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy" to finish a couplet begun by the female lead, who is also pursued by Petulant. A servant in this play pretends to be Sir Rowland in order to secure six thousand pounds for the protagonist after marrying Foible. In this play's final act, Mincing reveals Mrs. Marwood's secret affair with Fainall, preventing him from stealing the fortune of Lady Wishfort. Ending with the engagement of Mirabell to Millamant, for 10 points, name this final Restoration drama by William Congreve.
This play ends with its protagonist asserting that "each deceiver to his cost may find / That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.
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