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Report of Im (任氏) thanking for a gift of goods任氏謝物狀
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。恩章華縟。甫錫顯稱。慶賜便蕃。復宣異澤。祗承優渥。伏積感兢。前件物等。魯縞齊紈。吳苞蜀產。求諸九市。實爲難得之珍。傳及千孫。求祝無疆之壽。云云。
And so forth. The gracious letter is bright and splendid, and has bestowed a title only now made manifest; the felicitous gift is frequent and ample, and has again granted an extraordinary benefaction. Reverently bearing this thick favour, prostrate I find gratitude and dread heaped up in me.
The goods written above are the white silk of Lu (魯) and the fine pongee of Qi (齊), the bundles of Wu (吳) and the produce of Shu (蜀) — treasures truly hard to come by though one searched all through the nine markets. I would pass them down even to descendants of a thousand generations, and pray for your life without end. And so forth.