Master Yu Having Answered in Kind, I Reply Again兪君見和。復答之。
文平門下署名人。多至腰黃兼眼赤。趙韓兩相絶先馳。餘尙翩翩參拜夕。先生晚進銳飛騰。神錦何曾容易織。一朝手補舜衣裳。鳳彩龍文輝五色。同榜四人登玉陛。士林歆艶心爭激。謂君燈夕宴方酣。醉擁笙簫攢指百。豈知雨惡寢淸歡。燥吻未霑霞液滴。他年侍宴綴樞班。禮絶今時同列客。宣花剩揷八枝春。向我應誇瓊弁側。
Among those who signed their names under Duke Munpyeong (文平), many have come to wear yellow at the waist and to drink till their eyes were red. The two chancellors Jo and Han bounded ahead and ran first, and the rest too took part, fluttering, at the place where offices are conferred. You, sir, advanced late, but soared up swiftly: how should a marvelous brocade be woven easily? In a single morning your hand mends the robe of Shun, and the phoenix's coloring and the dragon's figuring shine in five hues. Four men of the same examination roll (榜) have climbed the jade steps, and the scholars' grove envies them, hearts vying in excitement. I thought that you, at the banquet of the Night of Lanterns, were at its very height, drunk, embracing pipes and flutes, your fingers gathered a hundred times. How should I have known that the rain was cruel and the clear pleasure ceased, and your dry lips were not wetted by a single drop of the sunset-cloud liquor? At some later banquet you will be attached to the Privy Council's rank, and the courtesy shown you will differ wholly from that of the fellows of your present rank. You will set the bestowed flowers thick, a full eight sprigs of spring, and turn to me to boast of what is beside your jade cap.
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見來詩然後。知是夕因大雨除宴。
Only after seeing the poem he sent did I learn that the banquet had ceased that evening because of heavy rain.
宰樞八揷侍臣六插。
The chancellors and privy councillors (宰樞) set eight sprigs, and the attendant officials six.