[227] 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._ [228] Bows. So in the "Wonderful Yeare, 1603" [attributed to Dekker]: "Janus (that beares two faces under one hood) made a very mannerly _lowe legge_," &c. And again-- "He calls forth one by one, to note their graces; Whilst they _make legs_, he copies out their faces." --_Ibid._ [229] [Pother.] [230] _Outcry_ was the ancient term for _an auction_. As in Massinger's "City Madam," act i. sc. 3-- "The goods of this poor man sold at an _out-cry_. His wife turn'd out of doors, his children forc'd To beg their bread." And again in Middleton's "Chast Mayd in Cheape-side" [Dyce's edit. iv. 58:] "I'll sell all at an _out-cry_." Again in Ben Jonson's "Catiline," act ii. sc. 3-- "Their houses, and fine gardens, given away, And their goods, under the spear at _outcry_." Upon which last passage Mr Whalley observes, that "the Roman way of selling things by auction was setting up a spear; and hence the phrase _sub hasta vendere_." [231] See Evans's "Collection of Old Ballads," i. 292. The story of Whittington and his Cat, though under different names, is common to various languages. Messrs Grim have pointed it out in German, and it is given in Italian as one of [the "Facetie" of the] celebrated Arlotto under the following title: "_Il Piovano, a un prete che fece mercantia di palle, dice la novella della gatte._" He relates it of a _mercante Genovese avventurato il quale navigando fu portato dalla fortuna a una isola lontanissima_. The story was probably borrowed in English and assigned to Whittington: it is noticed in "Eastward Hoe" as "the famous fable of Whittington and his Puss." This play was written soon after 1603, and the ballad in Evans's collection is [certainly in its present form] not so old. The "Novella" was printed in Italy [soon after 1500]; and Arlotto, to whom it is attributed, died in 1483. [232] [Old copy, _Hope, a half peny_, &c. This appears to be an allusion to the proverb, "At the west-gate came Thornton in, With a hop, a halfpenny, and a lamb's skin." See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 78. Thornton was a merchant of Newcastle.] [233] [In the modern editions, this speech improperly makes part of the next scene.] [234] [The folio reads _Mistress_.]