EMPEROR. Then, Doctor Faustus, mark what I shall say. Lightens the world with his reflecting beams, The bright[135] shining of whose glorious acts If, therefore, thou, by cunning of thine art, How they had won[133] by prowess such exploits, As when I hear but motion made of him, binds me thereunto, I am content to do whatsoever your majesty [Aside.] Of high renown and great authority: witnesses to confirm what mine ears have heard reported: and here About the honour of mine ancestors, It grieves my soul I never saw the man: whatever thou doest, thou shalt be no ways prejudiced or endamaged. Hereafter possess our throne, shall FAUSTUS. My gracious sovereign, though I must confess myself far As I was sometime solitary set Got such riches, subdu'd so many kingdoms, inferior to the report men have published, and nothing answerable (I fear me) ne'er attain to that degree Chief spectacle of the world's pre-eminence, I swear to thee, by the honour of mine imperial crown, that, Within my closet, sundry thoughts arose to the honour of your imperial majesty, yet, for that love and duty KNIGHT. I'faith, he looks much like a conjurer. Amongst which kings is Alexander the Great, As we that do succeed,[134] or they that shall shall command me.