Brewer's: Ishban

in the satire of Absalom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate, is Sir Robert Clayton, who'd “e'en turn loyal to be made a peer” (part ii.).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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