On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Fiona Moore wrote:
From: "Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net deciding what's a crime and what isn't. "A dog's obeyed in office" (Shakespeare definitely, King Lear I think.)
Actually, I don't recall that line being in Lear, anybody else know?
'King Lear' Act 4 Scene 6
KING LEAR
What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
GLOUCESTER
Ay, sir.
KING LEAR
And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Iain