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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report in Reply to the Deputy Envoy王師封冊客主往來狀 答副使狀
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.
鷃函持詔。將臨十笏之房。螺墨濡毫。先辱千金之翰。過承慰籍。第切兢榮。
Bearing the casket of the rescript, You would come to a narrow room of little more than ten tablets' span, and yet, wetting Your brush in conch ink, You first sent down to my awe a letter worth a thousand pieces of gold. Receiving Your consolation beyond measure, I feel only a heart at once fearful and honored, and that in earnest.