It is well for you that I am favorably inclined ; for , otherwise , you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon . '' `` I should not so much care for the dragon , '' replied Jason , `` if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls . '' `` If you are as brave as I think you , and as you have need to be , '' said Medea , `` your own bold heart will teach you that there is but one way of dealing with a mad bull . What it is I leave you to find out in the moment of peril . As for the fiery breath of these animals , I have a charmed ointment here , which will prevent you from being burned up , and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched . '' So she put a golden box into his hand , and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained , and where to meet her at midnight . `` Only be brave , '' added she , `` and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed . '' The young man assured her that his heart would not fail him . He then rejoined his comrades , and told them what had passed between the princess and himself , and warned them to be in readiness in case there might be need of their help . At the appointed hour he met the beautiful Medea on the marble steps of the king 's palace . She gave him a basket , in which were the dragon 's teeth , just as they had been pulled out of the monster 's jaws by Cadmus , long ago . Medea then led Jason down the palace steps , and through the silent streets of the city , and into the royal pasture ground , where the two brazen-footed bulls were kept . It was a starry night , with a bright gleam along the eastern edge of the sky , where the moon was soon going to show herself . After entering the pasture , the princess paused and looked around . `` There they are , '' said she , `` reposing themselves and chewing their fiery cuds in that farthest corner of the field . It will be excellent sport , I assure you , when they catch a glimpse of your figure . My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a stranger trying to yoke them , in order to come at the Golden Fleece . It makes a holiday in Colchis whenever such a thing happens . For my part , I enjoy it immensely . You can not imagine in what a mere twinkling of an eye their hot breath shrivels a young man into a black cinder . ''
`` Are you sure , beautiful Medea , '' asked Jason , `` quite sure , that the unguent XXXXX the gold box will prove a remedy against those terrible burns ? ''
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