Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself

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Why someone would do something himself or herself when that person already pays a person to do the job, do not do it yourself.

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The earliest citation of ‘don’t keep a dog and bark yourself’ that I can find is Brian Melbancke’s novel Philotimus: the Warre Betwixt Nature and Fortune, 1583: “It is small reason you should kepe a dog, and barke your selfe.”