Man of Mode I

In Etherege's play, characters quote and appropriate poems and songs for various purposes, but often as a way of providing a witty aphorism that carries some sort of "authority." The original context of Edmund Waller's nationalistic poem "On the War with Spain," for instance, is quite different than the intertextual work it's being put to at the start of the play. How does this use of intertextuality work alongside the themes of foppery, courtship, and internationality?