Lovewit is wearing Hieronimo’s cloak—a character from Thomas Kyd’s
The Spanish Tragedy—to dupe Dame Pliant into believing he is Spanish so she would agree to marry him. Like the other characters, Lovewit, too, undergoes a deceitful transformation, and he also does so to satisfy his lust and greed. Lovewit is also deceiving Face and Subtle’s victims—Lovewit knows all about Face’s scams, but he lies because Face “gave” him Dame Pliant.