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in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means France.
“Egypt and Tyrus [Holland] intercept your trade,
And Jebusites [Papists] your sacred rites invade.”
Part i. 705–6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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