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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Imogine

The lady who broke her vow and was carried off by the ghost of her former lover, in the ballad of Alonzo the Brave, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, generally called Monk Lewis.

Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight,
And the maiden's the fair Imogine.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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