Restoration Dopers: What is a 'Tony'?

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From Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer:

Come, Squire, let your mother and your frees fall as she pleases rather than wear this gown and carry green bags all thy life, and be pointed at for a Tony. But you shall be able to deal with her yet the common way. Thou shalt make false love to some lawyer’s daughter, whose father, upon the hopes of thy marrying her, shall lend thee money and law to preserve thy estate and trees: and thy mother is so ugly nobody will have her, if she cannot cut down thy trees.

Ok, what is a “Tony”? Is that a slang term or a reference to a proper person? Or an anti-Italian slur like ‘Dago’?

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From the OED:

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1. A foolish person; a simpleton. Obs. slang.

For possible origin, cf. MIDDLETON Changeling (1623) I. ii.

1654 GAYTON Pleas. Notes III. x. 141 Their Friends and Wives have took them for Tonies or Mad-men. 1699 R. L’ESTRANGE Erasm. Colloq. (1711) 148, I saw once an errant Tony, with a Gown to his Heels. a1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tony, a silly Fellow, or Ninny. a1784 JOHNSON in Piozzi Anecd. (1786) 195 Teaching such tonies is like setting a lady’s diamonds in lead.