Who was more impassioned in his nature, who was more formed for love,
than the great Han Koong Shew, known in the celestial archives as the
sublime Youantee, brother of the sun and moon?--whose court was so
superb--whose armies were so innumerable--whose territories were so
vast--bounded as they were by the four seas, which bounded the whole
universe; yet was he bound by destiny to be unhappy, and thus do I
commence the wondrous tale of Han--the sorrows of the magnificent
Youantee.