"Perswade her out, for the good of the commonwealth!"

Convent of Pleasure certainly takes on matters of domestic importance (especially marriage) as its focus. The play's several diatribes about the downside of marriage for women and the upside of female friendship make this a play about personal, domestic relationships. But I wonder if there aren't larger issues wrapped up in this domestic debate. In II.1, Facil is desperate for Lady Happy to come back into the public sphere so he can woo her and he says, "Perswade her out, for the good of the commonwealth!" While an obvious comic overstatement, I wonder what implications a community like the Convent of Pleasure in the play would be for seventeenth century English society at large. What is really at stake for the commonwealth while debates that seem to touch only the private sphere rage on?