Jonathan Monologue from The Contrast

From The Contrast by Royall Tyler

male · comedic · 1:05 min

No, no; I can sing more; some other time, when you and I are better acquainted, I'll sing the whole of it--no, no--that's a fib--I can't sing but a hundred and ninety verses: our Tabitha at home can sing it all.-- (Sings.) Marblehead's a rocky place, And Cape-Cod is sandy; Charlestown is burnt down, Boston is the dandy. Yankee doodle, doodle do, &c. I vow, my own town song has put me into such topping spirits that I believe I'll begin to do a little, as Jessamy says we must when we go a-courting.-- (Runs and kisses her.) Burning rivers! cooling flames! red-hot roses! pig-nuts! hasty-pudding and ambrosia! (JENNY: What means this freedom? you insulting wretch.) Are you affronted? (JENNY: Affronted! with what looks shall I express my anger?) Looks! why as to the matter of looks, you look as cross as a witch.

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