First Shake-Speare:
(Henry VIII pays tribute to his wife Katherine after he has discarded her in favour of Anne Boleyn):
"Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
Obeying in commanding"
Obeying in commanding"
now Bacon: "We cannot command nature except by obeying her".
Novum Organum
Comment: This may be derived from Publilius Syrus of the 1st century B.C. who wrote that a wife governs her husband by obeying him. But was it common in Elizabethan literature?
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