Yes. It comprises every possible display of jocularity, from an affettuoso smile to a piano titter, or full chorus fortissimo ha, ha, ha! My master employs his leisure-hours in marking out the plays, like a cathedral chanting-book, that the ignorant may know where to laugh; and that pit, box, and gallery may keep time together, and not have a snigger in one part of the house, a broad grin in the other, and a d----d grum look in the third. How delightful to see the audience all smile together, then look on their books, then twist their mouths into an agreeable simper, then altogether shake the house with a general ha, ha, ha! loud as a full chorus of Handel's at an Abbey-commemoration. (JONATHAN: Ha, ha, ha! that's dang'd cute, I swear.) The gentlemen, you see, will laugh the tenor; the ladies will play the counter-tenor; the beaux will squeak the treble; and our jolly friends in the gallery a thorough bass, ho, ho, ho! (JONATHAN: Well, can't you let me see that gamut?) Oh! yes, Mr. Jonathan; here it is. (Takes out a book.) Oh! no, this is only a titter with its variations. Ah, here it is. (Takes out another.) Now, you must know, Mr. Jonathan, this is a piece written by Ben Johnson (sic), which I have set to my master's gamut. The places where you must smile, look grave, or laugh outright, are marked below the line. Now look over me. "There was a certain man"--now you must smile.

Jessamy Monologue from The Contrast

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