A boastful, aging knight attempts to court two married women as a scheme to secure money and advantage, but the women discover his intentions and engineer a sequence of comic reprisals that expose and humiliate him. Their plots involve deception, disguises, and staged encounters that provoke jealous reactions from a suspicious husband and fuel local gossip. Interwoven with this are rival suitors, officious local worthies, and farcical misunderstandings. The play resolves with public revelations, reconciliations among couples, and the knight reduced to mockery, leaving social order and romantic pairings largely restored.