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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report of the Royal Preceptor in Reply to the Envoy of Investiture王師封冊客主往來狀 王師答冊使狀
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.
玉轡金韉。降自九天之路。華牋寶墨。首貽十部之賢。賞味至三。銘藏倍萬。
With jade reins and a golden saddle-pad You have come down from the road of the ninefold heavens, and with precious ink upon fine paper You have first given a letter to the worthy one of the ten bu (十部). Three times over I have savored it, and what I grave upon my heart and keep there is ten thousandfold.
Interlinear notes 1
What office or what company 「the ten bu (十部)」 points to could not be made clear from the source text. ― Translator