Chapter Iron Tooth to Isabell of I by Brewer's Readers Handbook

and he marries her. He mistakes Louisa’s duenna for Louisa, and elopes with her. So all his wit is outwitted.—Sheridan: The Duenna (1775).

Quick’s great parts were “Isaac,” “Tony Lumpkin” [She Stoops to Conquer, Goldsmith], “Spado” [Castle of Andalusia, O’Keefe], and “sir Christopher Curry,” in Inkle and Yarico, by Colman [1748–1831].—of a Stage Veteran.

Isaac of York, the father of Rebecca. When imprisoned in the dungeon of Front de Bœuf’s castle, Front de Bœuf comes to extort money from him, and orders two slaves to chain him to the bars of a slow fire, but the party is disturbed by the sound of a bugle. Ultimately, both the Jew and his daughter leave England and go to live abroad.—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

Isabel, called the “She-wolf of France,” the adulterous queen of Edward II., was daughter of Philippe IV. (le Bel) of France. According to one tradition, Isabel murdered her royal husband by thrusting a hot iron into his bowels, and tearing them from his body.

She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear’st the bowels of thy mangled mate.
   —Gray: The Bard (1757).

Isabell, sister of lady Hartwell, in the comedy of Wit without Money, by Beaumont (?) and Fletcher (1639). Beaumont died 1616.