In The Taming of the Duke, Imogen and Cristobel fall into a keg of wine. Eloisa actually discovered an episode like that in La Belle Assemblée from February 1810. A young lady was unable to see a performance, so climbed onto an empty hogshead from a tavern: "Here then she was, like a statue on its pedestal, enjoying the double gratification of seeing and being seen." But then the lady invited her gentleman friend to join her. He nimbly sprang on the cask, "but Oh fatal catastrophe!...our till then envied couple fell suddenly up to the middle of the leg in wine-lees left in the cask, and came to the ground, rolling in it and its offensive contents."
