[223] [Old copy, your.]
[224] [Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 343, and note to Tomkis's "Albumazar," xi. 334-5.]
[225] [Platonic lovers.]
[226] [A very ancient office at the court; but here, of course, intended in another sense.]
[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—