Love thou the law and cleave to things ordained.


MELEAGER.

Law lives upon their lips whom these applaud.


ALTHAEA.

How sayest thou these? what god applauds new things?


MELEAGER.

Zeus, who hath fear and custom under foot.


ALTHAEA.

But loves not laws thrown down and lives awry.


MELEAGER.

Yet is not less himself than his own law.


ALTHAEA.