How can it matter now—if seeing them
You shall approve them?
FAUST
Are you serious?
SATAN
My jests have other aspect.
FAUST
I accept.
Your game is to my taste. For thirty years
Have I made search through all the lands of earth,
The realms of learning, and the tangled groves
Of fancy, for some region which my soul
Might with entire approval view; but none
Has been vouchsafed me. If the Devil can
In this surpass the world's established powers,
Then I am his disciple willingly....
But if you fail, friend Satan!—I shall tie
You to a cart's tail and exhibit you
Like a dead whale throughout the country—or
Make you curator of an orphanage!
SATAN
I shall not fail.
OLDHAM (enters)