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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: hero; but I am ill, and dare drink no wine.'
And Theseus looked again into her eyes, and cried, 'Thou
shalt pledge me in that cup, or die.' And he lifted up his
brazen club, while all the guests looked on aghast.
Medeia shrieked a fearful shriek, and dashed the cup to the
ground, and fled; and where the wine flowed over the marble
pavement, the stone bubbled, and crumbled, and hissed, under
the fierce venom of the draught.
But Medeia called her dragon chariot, and sprang into it and
fled aloft, away over land and sea, and no man saw her more.
And AEgeus cried, 'What hast thou done?' But Theseus pointed
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