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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: but he may be charmed, or witch-queen so fierce but spells
may soothe her; and I may yet win the golden fleece, if a
wise maiden help bold men.'
And he looked at Medeia cunningly, and held her with his
glittering eye, till she blushed and trembled, and said -
'Who can face the fire of the bulls' breath, and fight ten
thousand armed men?'
'He whom you help,' said Jason, flattering her, 'for your
fame is spread over all the earth. Are you not the queen of
all enchantresses, wiser even than your sister Circe, in her
fairy island in the West?'
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