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Matching the Rhymes of the Poem Chancellor Geum Gave in Jest on the Remarriage of Im Yeongnyeong, Chancellor of the National Academy, and Presenting It to Master Im次韻琴相國以任大司成永齡重娶不開慶宴戱贈之什。呈任公。伏希傳獻相國垂覽。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 84 Chinese characters · reading time 0.9 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 14 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.

聞公端喜聽卿卿。甲族雙華正的當。養氣得充堪自負。畫眉求媚亦何傷。不呑丹藥髭還黑。似點香膏面有光。連理花開春不老。同心枕暖夢偏長。巹餘久嗇人多戱。賀宴高張衆固望。相國欺嘲誠有味。何須屛客守帷房。

I hear that you greatly delight to be called 「my dear, my dear」 (卿卿), and it is only fitting that two good houses should shine side by side. Having nourished and filled your vigor, you may well take pride in yourself, and what harm is there if you paint your brows and seek to please? Without swallowing an elixir your beard is black again, and your face shines as though anointed with fragrant oil. The twined branches have flowered, and the spring does not grow old; the pillow of like minds is warm, and the dreams are uncommonly long. Since the wedding you have long been fond, and people make sport of you often, and the crowd truly wishes you would hold a great feast of congratulation. There is real savor in the Chancellor's teasing, so why must you turn your guests away and keep to the curtained room alone?