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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Presenting Gifts王師封冊客主往來狀 贈物狀
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.
使華方戾。幸攀河目之姿。宴貨是將。聊奉沚毛之薦。別牋所具。麤品曷言。
The envoy's progress has only now arrived, and happily I have looked up to Your holy bearing. Herewith I have prepared the gifts of the banquet, and offer up a poor sincerity like herbs plucked at the water's edge. They are set down one by one in a separate writing; what is there to say of so coarse a thing?