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Statement of thanks from the Princess for the things bestowed公主謝物狀
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 30 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.
云云。湯沐疏封。旣加禮冊。篚筐實幣。繼錫珍頒。前件物等。內府奇賝。殊方名產。物維多矣。累鈞石以難量。受言藏之。固緘縢而永祕。云云。
And so forth. You set apart and enfeoffed a district whose revenue is to serve for my bathing costs, and had already added a patent of investiture furnished with full ritual; and now, filling baskets with gifts of silk, you have bestowed precious things one after another. The things written above are the rare treasures of the Inner Treasury (內府) and the famed products of other regions. The things are many upon many, hard to reckon even in many gyun (鈞) and seok (石). I shall receive them and keep them, sealing them fast and hiding them away for good.