Note 227 — SCENE VII.

This word is seldom used as a verb: as an adjective it is not uncommon. See note to "Cornelia," [v. 230]. In this place it ought to be understood as "was haught among the men." It was anciently printed hault and halty, to be nearer the etymology: thus in Wilson's "Rhetorique," 1558, fol. 9, in the eulogy upon the Duke of Suffolk and his brother, we are told that they were "hault without hate, kynde without crafte:" and in "The Orator, handling a hundred severall Discourses," by L. Piot [i.e., Anthony Munday], Decl. 81, p. 327, "for to say the truth, every haulty spirit are in that like unto women, who do for the most part covet after that which they are forbidden to touch."—Collier.