=Isabelle=, sister of Léonor, an orphan; brought up by Sganarelle according to his own notions of training a girl to make him a good wife. She was to dress in serge, and keep to the house, to occupy herself in domestic affairs, to sew, knit, and look after the linen, to hear no flattery, attend no places of public amusement, never to be left to her own devices, but to run in harness like a mill-horse. The result was that she duped Sganarelle and married Valère. (See LÉONOR).—Molière, _L’école des Maris_ (1661). =Isabinda=, daughter of Sir Jealous Traffick, a merchant. Her father is resolved she shall marry Don Diego Barbinetto, but she is in love with Charles Gripe; and Charles, in the dress of a Spaniard, passing himself off as the Spanish don, and marries her.—Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busy Body_ (1709). =Isadore=, wife, fondly lamented in Albert Pike’s lines beginning: “Thou art lost to me forever! I have lost thee, Isadore!” Albert Pike, _Poems_ (183-). =Isenbras= (_Sir_), a hero of mediæval romance. Sir Isenbras was at first proud and presumptous, but adversity made him humble and pentitent. In this stage he carried two children of a poor wood-cutter across a ford on his horse. =I´sengrin= (_Sir_) or SIR ISENGRIM, the wolf, afterwards created the earl of Pitwood, in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_. Sir Isengrin typifies the _barons_, and Reynard the _Church_. The gist of the tale is to show how Reynard over-reaches his uncle Wolf (1498). =Ishah=, the name of Eve before the Fall; so called because she was taken out of _ish_, _i.e._ “man” (_Gen._ ii. 23); but after the expulsion from paradise, Adam called his wife Eve or Havah, _i.e._ “the mother of all living” (_Gen._ iii. 20). =Ishban=, meant for Sir Robert Clayton. There is no such name in the Bible as Ishban; but Tate speaks of “extorting Ishban,” pursued by “bankrupt heirs.” He says he had occupied himself long in cheating, but then undertook to “reform the state.” Ishban of conscience suited to his trade, As good a saint as usurer e’er made ... Could David ... scandalize our peerage with his name ... He’d e’en turn loyal to be made a peer. Tate, _Absalom and Achitophel_, ii. (1682). =Ish´bosheth=, in Dryden’s satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_, is meant for Richard Cromwell, whose father, Oliver, is called “Saul.” As Ishbosheth was the only surviving son of Saul, so Richard was the only surviving son of Cromwell. As Ishbosheth was accepted king on the death of his father by all except the tribe of Judah, so Richard was acknowledged “protecter” by all except the royalists. As Ishbosheth reigned only a few months, so Richard, after a few months, retired into private life. They who, when Saul was dead, without a blow Made foolish Ishbosheth the crown forego. Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, i. (1681).