=Ini=, =Ine=, or =Ina=, king of Wessex; his wife was Æthelburh; both were of the royal line of Cerdic. After a grand banquet, King Ini set forth to sojourn in another of his palaces, and his queen privately instructed his steward to “fill the house they quitted with rubbish and offal, to put a sow and litter of pigs in the royal bed, and entirely dismantle the room.” When the king and queen had gone about a mile or so, the queen entreated her husband to return to the house they had quitted, and great was his astonishment to behold the change. Æthelburh then said, “Behold what vanity of vanities is all earthly greatness! Where now are the good things you saw here but a few hours ago? See how foul a beast occupies the royal bed. So will it be with you unless you leave earthly things for heavenly.” So the king abdicated his kingdom, went to Rome, and dwelt there as a pilgrim for the rest of his life. ... in fame great Ina might pretend With any king since first the Saxons came to shore. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xi. (1613). =Inkle and Yar´ico=, hero and heroine of a story by Sir Richard Steele, in the _Spectator_ (No. 11). Inkle is a young Englishman who is lost in the Spanish main. He falls in love with Yarico, an Indian maiden, with whom he consorts; but no sooner does a vessel arrive to take him to Barbadoes than he sells Yarico as a slave. George Colman has dramatized this tale (1787). =Innocents= (_The_), the babes of Bethlehem cut off by Herod the Great. ⁂ John Baptist Marino, an Italian poet, has a poem on _The Massacre of the Innocents_ (1569-1625). =Innogen= or INOGENE (3 _syl._), wife of Brute (1 _syl._), mythical king of Britain. She was daughter of Pan´drasos of Greece. Thus Brute this realme unto his rule subdewd ... And left three sons, his famous progeny, Born of fayre Inogene of Italy. Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 10 (1590). And for a lasting league of amity and peace, Bright Innogen, his child, for wife to Brutus gave. M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, I. (1612). =Insane Root= (_The_), hemlock. It is said that those who eat hemlock can see objects otherwise invisible. Thus when Banquo had encountered the witches, who vanished as mysteriously as they appeared, he says to Macbeth, “Were such things [_really_] here ... or have we eaten [_hemlock_] of the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner,” so that our eyes see things that are not?—Macbeth, act i. sc. 3 (1606). =Interpreter= (_Mr._), in Bunyan’s _Pilgrim’s Progress_, means the Holy Ghost as it operates on the heart of a believer. He is lord of a house a little beyond the Wicket Gate.—Pt. i. (1678). =Inveraschal´loch=, one of the Highlanders at the Clachan of Aberfoyle.—Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). =Invin´cible Doctor= (_The_), William of Occam; also called _Doctor Singulāris_ (1270-1347).