Memorial Presented to the Emperor, Sent with the Returning Mongol Envoys蒙古行李齎去。上皇帝表。

And so forth. A rebuke has come down from Heaven, and I have no ground on which to set my body; the whole country trembled in alarm and cried out with one voice.

Prostrate I consider that I, your servant, presumptuous with my paltry stuff, lie off in a remote corner. Once I received the great state's rescue from peril, and our ancestral altars were kept whole. Earnestly I pledged to be on good terms for all ages, and down to sons and grandsons — how should we harbor a divided heart and dare to spurn so heavy a kindness? Suddenly to receive your questioning sent down to us has deeply pained my inmost heart. The matters can be set forth; how should the circumstances be hidden?

As for the killing of Jeogoyeo (著古與), it was truly the work of robbers from a neighboring land, and I think your sagely wisdom will readily make it clear. Even the traces of the road he passed along can serve as proof.

Next, the matter of the envoys who came again being struck by arrows. Before this, Gabulae (哥不愛) falsely got himself up in the dress of your great state and raided our borders again and again. Only after a long while did the border people perceive that it was a sham. This spring they met with such men again, and were just driving them off, when all at once not a man was to be seen; they picked up only the fur coats, silk caps, saddled horses and the like that had been cast away. By reason of the silk caps they knew it was a sham, yet being still in doubt they kept the things in the district office, meaning to wait for someone coming from the great state and so tell the true from the false. Now all of this has been handed over to the great army of your state; from this you may know that we have no other intent.

Next, the matter of binding Ato (阿土) and the others. At first we did not imagine that a great state bound to us in friendship would without cause add violence to a small country. Taking them for robbers come to invade, we sent out troops and were just engaging them, when suddenly two men burst into our ranks. Foolish soldiers, without questioning them closely, seized them and sent them to Pyeongju (平州). The people of Pyeongju, fearing they might slip away, roughly put them in cangue and chains and reported to the court. The court sent an interpreter to look into it, and since their speech was much like the language of your state, thereupon their irons were loosed, they were comforted and questioned, and clothing was given them besides for the road, and they were let go in the interpreter's company. It came about at first from our failing to make the thing clear, but in truth it may also be forgiven.

Next, the matter of Gabulae's people entering and dwelling inside the walled towns of our country. These men long ago fell to raiding back and forth with the border people of our country, and have been enemies this long while. However foolish the border folk may be, how should they take their enemies in and live together with them? As the matter grows clearer by degrees, can words be dressed up?

As for submitting in allegiance, we already submitted in allegiance long ago, when Hacheong (河稱) and Jallal (扎剌) came. Now, by the coming of your splendid envoys, we reaffirm the good relations of former years.

Prostrate I beg — and so forth — that as Heaven and Earth cover and moisten all and as sun and moon shine down, you will probe the reality and look into the circumstances; and if you truly widen that measure of forbearance which embraces even the coarse, then with all our sincerity and all our strength we shall render the more fully the rites of serving our superior. And so forth.