Both Uses of
Methuselah
in
Don Quixote
- "By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it."†
Chpt 2.3-4 *
- "By God, your worship is right," replied the Castilian; "for to advise this good man is to kick against the pricks; still for all that it fills me with pity that the sound wit they say the blockhead has in everything should dribble away by the channel of his knight-errantry; but may the bad luck your worship talks of follow me and all my descendants, if, from this day forth, though I should live longer than Methuselah, I ever give advice to anybody even if he asks me for it."†
Chpt 2.61-62
Definition:
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(Methuselah) Old Testament: grandfather of Noah who is said to have lived 969 years
or more rarely: a man who is very old