Note 22 — CANTO THE FIRST.
Reading edition
{17} ["Hight" is the preterite of the passive "hote," and means "was called." "Childe Harold he hight" would be more correct. Compare Spenser's Faërie Queene, bk. i. c. ix. 14. 9, "She Queene of Faeries hight." But "hight" was occasionally used with the common verbs "is," "was." Compare The Ordinary, 1651, act iii. sc. 1—
" ... the goblin That is hight Good-fellow Robin."
Dodsley (ed. Hazlitt), xii. 253.]