Male constancy

We have talked on several occassions about tests of constancy as they have been employed on women in several of the plays this semester, and this one is no exception. But I think Hyde Park offers us a new kind of constancy test for a man as well. In Act I scene ii, Mistress Bonavent lays out her reason for finally accepting Lacy's marriage proposal, "And therefore I resolve, upon so large / A trial of his constancy, at last / To give him the reward of his respects / To me" (469). She is speaking of Lacy's constancy in waiting out her seven year oath to confirm the death of her lost husband, and it seems he passes with flying colors and so is rewarded with her agreement to marry. In the case of Julietta, who also passes her constancy test, she is "rewarded" with a marriage proposal from Trier, but she refuses. Lacy's constancy, however, is little-considered with the quick reestablishment of the Bonavent's marriage at the end of the play. Are tests of constancy, then, subverted in some way in Hyde Park? Are these consequences of these tests merely commentaries on their foolishness or is there something more interesting being claimed about the implications of such tests on the two different genders?