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Given to Hwasu (花羞), a Courtesan of the Music Bureau (敎坊)贈敎坊妓花羞

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 17 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.

玉顔嬌媚百花羞。第一風流飮量優。笑待詩人情最密。麤狂如我亦同遊。

Her jade-like face is so lovely that all the flowers are put to shame, and with elegance of the first rank she has ample capacity for wine besides. She greets the poet with a smile, and her feeling is the most generous, and she keeps company even with one as rough and mad as I.

Interlinear notes 1

善飮酒故云。

She drinks well, hence these words.