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Letter Sent with a Suit of Clothes at the Great Banquet大宴送衣對狀
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 32 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.
宴以合歡。幸接酢酬之禮。貨將爲好。粗輸贈勞之誠。所有末儀。具如他幅。
Sharing our gladness in the banquet, we have been fortunate to keep up the courtesy of urging wine and returning it. Making goods the token of our friendship, I send, rough as it is, this earnest of my wish to comfort You. The poor gifts I send are set out in full upon a separate paper.