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Hwasu Was Rather Displeased at My Line About Her Capacity for Drink, So I Gave Her Another Quatrain花羞以飮量之句。頗不悅。復以一絶贈之。
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.
愛酒神仙事。西施醉亦多。欲添渠態度。欹倒似風花。
To love wine is the business of immortals; Xi Shi (西施) too was often drunk. If you would add to your own grace, it is to tilt and topple like a flower leaning in the wind.