The title would lead one to suppose that it is taken directly from Corneille’s _Le Galant Double_, but it is a weaving together of Mrs. Centlivre’s _Love at a Venture_, which is an adaptation of Corneille, Burnaby’s _Ladies Visiting Day_, and the Lady Dainty action from Burnaby’s _Reformed Wife_. In consolidating such parts of these three plays as are used, the crudities of the first two are polished off, and certain additions are made to the last. These additions consist in sections of the dialogue, in the changing of Lady Dainty’s lover into a more impetuous wooer, and in the addition of the lover’s disguise as a Russian, by which subterfuge he wins her. The introductory scene, taken from _Love at a Venture_, is much more lively and entertaining in Cibber’s play than in the original, and Cibber likewise handles more adroitly the subterfuge of the hero’s arrest, taken from the same play, using the same device of decoy letters that he uses in _Woman’s Wit_. In the working over of Burnaby’s adaptation of the Horner episode, which he had taken from Wycherley’s _Country Wife_, Cibber has entirely eliminated the unpleasant features. This play is the same sort of an adaptation as his working over of other earlier plays. He has taken such scenes as he wished, changed the names of the characters, and introduced sufficient lines of his own to give continuity and connection to the various actions, but has made no material additions whatever. In this case he has made an extremely diverting play, very superior to his originals. _The Lady’s Last Stake_, which seems to be entirely original, was produced at the Haymarket, December 13, 1707, when it was acted five times; and it was published probably early in the next year. It continued on the London stage until 1786, and was last performed at Bath, in 1813. It is only a fair comedy, lacking the qualities of style, the originality in the conception of the characters, and the skilful working out of the plot that had characterized Cibber’s two earlier plays of the sentimental type. But in whatever way the plot as a whole may be lacking, the last act has plenty of liveliness; there complication follows complication and humorous incidents follow serious with great rapidity. _The Rival Fools_, published in quarto in 1709 and played at Drury Lane, January 11, 1709, is an alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Wit at Several Weapons_, and was not successful. At its first presentation it was acted five times, and was revived only once, in 1712, when it was acted twice. _The Biographia Dramatica_[53] relates the following incident of the first performance, the events of which may be compared with the reception accorded Thomson’s _Sophonisba_: