Part 3 / Act 4 — ACT IV.
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Scene 2. Page 621.
K. Rich. Because that like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke.
At Horsham church, in Sussex, there was a figure dressed in scarlet and gold, that struck the quarters. He was called Jack o' the clock-house. The French term for this kind of automaton is jaquemar, the etymology of which is very fanciful and uncertain.