There ys no token of rayn: for the cloudes be both fayr and clere.

As here ae, and io, let them cut into halfes the right lines uy, and ys.

But the perpendicular uy, is equall to ys; because each of them is the double of yo.

For withyn London he ys next unto the kyng in all maner thynge.

Ten such sittings and my 'King of Ys' will have its day with the world.

"Tearm yt as you wyll, it ys all I owe you," said his father.

And so far it is easy to follow his meaning: the Xs are identical with some or all the Ys.

But one day Han-chan was taken violently ill, and died; upon which Ys wife was overwhelmed with grief, and wished to die too.

"I think the way you two fellows are hogging the Ys and captaincies around here is disgraceful," complained the Codfish one night.

He is, altho' only 24 ys of age, in possession of a very great variety of knowledge.