And the creature run from the cur?
There thou might'st behold the great image of authority
a dog's obeyed in office.
King Lear -- IV. 6.
Could great men thunder
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,
For every pelting, petty officer
Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thunder--
Merciful heaven!
Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,