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Thanks to Yi Gyeong the Junior Minister (少卿), Circuit Inspector (按部), for Permitting Me to Attend a Splendid Banquet and Sending Deer Marrow the Next Day謝按部李少卿儆許赴華筵。明日以鹿髓見惠。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 9 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
蓮幕森嚴忝作賀。歸來不似世間人。更分香滑千金藥。與護衰遲六尺身。輕破筯端瓊屑散。暖消杯底玉膏勻。欲知一倍精神壯。官妓渾爲媚眼春。
The Lotus Tent (蓮幕) was stern, yet I presumed to join the congratulation; coming back, I am not like a man of this world. Again you shared out a fragrant, smooth medicine worth a thousand gold, to guard this failing, slow, six-foot body. Broken lightly with the chopstick's tip, jade powder scatters; melting warm at the bottom of the cup, the jade oil is even. If you would know how my spirits grow twice as hale, look how the official courtesans all become a spring of coquettish eyes.
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以戲予無心於花柳。故云。
He teased me for having no heart for flowers and willows, and so I spoke thus.