 Roger L'Estrange had similarly taken the fable, at much the same time as La Fontaine, as ‘a reproof to those men who take the honour and respect that is done to the character they sustain, to be paid to the person’.But after his time, although there were subsequent inclusions in English fable collections, it appeared in none of the best known until Victorian times.The lesson was emphasised then by its being titled "The Jackass in Office", in reference to the proverbial expression for a puffed up petty official, a jack in office.