Which is the mightier gift, do you think ?" "Oh, the last, most surely!" "True.

Does Merlin possess it ?" "Partly, yes.

He foretold mysteries about my birth and future kingship that were twenty years away." "Has he ever gone beyond that ?" "He would not claim more, I think." "It is probably his limit.

All prophets have their limit.

The limit of some of the great prophets has been a hundred years." "These are few, I ween." "There have been two still greater ones, whose limit was four hundred and six hundred years, and one whose limit compassed even seven hundred and twenty." "Gramercy, it is marvelous!" "But what are these in comparison with me?
They are nothing." "What?
Canst thou truly look beyond even so vast a stretch of time as--" "Seven hundred years?
My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half!" My land, you should have seen the king's eyes spread slowly open, and lift the earth's entire atmosphere as much as an inch! That settled Brer Merlin.