Jessamy Monologue from The Contrast

From The Contrast by Royall Tyler

any · comedic · 53 sec

But, Mr. Jonathan, you must not laugh so. Why, you ought to have tittered piano, and you have laughed fortissimo. Look here; you see these marks, A, B, C, and so on; these are the references to the other part of the book. Let us turn to it, and you will see the directions how to manage the muscles. This (Turns over.) was note D you blundered at.--"You must purse the mouth into a smile, then titter, discovering the lower part of the three front upper teeth." (JONATHAN: How? read it again.) "There was a certain man"--very well!--"who had a sad scolding wife,"--why don't you laugh?

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