There is no fettering of authority.
 William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1623). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source All's Well That Ends Well
Topic power authority
Date 1623
Language English
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Note Written between 1604 and 1605
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“My Lord you do me most insupportable vexation
Laf. I would it were hell paines for thy sake, and my poore doing eternall: for doing I am past, as I will by thee, in what motion age will giue me leaue. Enter.
par. Well, thou hast a sonne shall take this disgrace off me; scuruy, old, filthy, scuruy Lord: Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. Ile beate him (by my life) if I can meete him with any conuenience, and he were double and double a Lord. Ile haue no more pittie of his age then I would haue of- Ile beate him, and if I could but meet him agen.” source

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