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Reports exchanged between guest and host at the investiture of the imperial son and the princess — Report presenting gifts by the Patent-Reading Envoy (讀冊使) of the banquet-companion party皇子公主封冊客主狀 筵伴行讀冊使上贈物狀
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.
肅敞賓筵。愧欠昌塩之享。繼陳宴貨。慙同第塊之投。物雖微焉。誠可尙已。
I have respectfully spread the guest's seat wide, yet I am ashamed that even a fare of pickled sweet flag and salt falls short. I go on to present the banquet gifts, and am ashamed that it is like throwing clods of earth. The things are paltry, but look, I beg, upon the sincerity alone.