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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Submitted by the Deputy Envoy, as Above王師封冊客主往來狀 副使上同前狀
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.
八尺僑居之室。幸枉皇華。一杯大道之漿。庶資歡緖。肯焉毋拒。喜可能言。
It is but a borrowed room of a little over eight feet, yet happily You have stooped to walk hither to me, an envoy; and I would that a single cup of roadside gruel might add something to a glad gathering. I pray You will take pleasure in it and not put it away. What words could tell that gladness?