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Letter Sent with a Suit of Clothes on Asking Again and Holding a Banquet再屈宴送衣對狀
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.
有酒與肴。申講宴遨之好。贈衣及帶。續陳微薄之儀。庶紆山藪之藏。勿責芹暄之獻。
There is wine and there are dishes, and so we hold a banquet again and cultivate the friendship of taking our pleasure together. Presenting clothes and a belt, we spread out once more our poor courtesy. I beg that You will receive it generously, as mountains and marshes hold all things within them, and will not rebuke the meanness of one who offers water-parsley and sunshine.