obey vs wallow in the mire

obey

verb
  • To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. 

  • To do as one is told. 

wallow in the mire

verb
  • To revel in baseness or scandal. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wallow, mire. 

How often have the words obey and wallow in the mire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )