Edict Bestowed upon the Crown Prince on the Third Day after the Birth of the Eldest Grandson大孫誕生三日賜大子敎書
云云。朕以祖宗積累之德。膺受丕圖。撫有三韓久矣。嘗自以爲朕雖不逮。苟得有嗣續之良。克昌厥後。則足以無負於祖宗。無愧於社稷矣。果得爾爲子。冊以儲副。方慶之之未暇也。爾復以岐嶷之資。得配淑媛。猶未及朞年。而又得元子。則爾之於祖宗。亦可謂不負矣。然後知朕與爾之能不墜先王無疆大曆服。永求傅于萬世明矣。夫復何憂哉。況婦人之免身。難莫難焉。爾子之生。易於反手。不拆不副。無菑無害。則是豈偶然耶。必天所保佑然也。宜勉加鞠養之慈。俾克遂元良之德。今於開福日。特遣使某官某等。備禮奬諭。以示予慺慺之意耳。所賜物件。具如別錄。至可領也。云云。
And so forth.
By the virtue heaped up by my ancestors I received the great succession, and long have I soothed and governed the Three Han. Early I thought within myself that, though I fall short, if I truly got good sons and grandsons to carry it on and made their posterity flourish, then I should not have failed my ancestors nor be ashamed before the altars of state.
And indeed I got you for my son and invested you as heir, and had scarcely leisure to count that a felicity. You in turn, with your outstanding gifts, got a chaste mate, and before even a year was out got an eldest son; so it may be said that you too have not failed your ancestors. Only after this is it clear that you and I may seek not to let fall the boundless great fortune of the late king and to hand it down forever to ten thousand generations; what then is there again to be anxious over?
How much more, since a woman's delivery is the hardest of hard things. The birth of your son was easier than turning over a palm: there was neither tearing nor rending, neither calamity nor harm. How should this be by chance? It must be that Heaven guarded and aided it. It is right that you strive the more in the love that rears and watches over him, and have him accomplish the virtue of foremost goodness.
Now, upon the Gaebok day, I especially send So-and-so of such an office as envoy, and the rest, to furnish the rites, to praise and to admonish, and so to show my earnest intent. The things bestowed are all as set down apart; receive them when they come.
And so forth.
Interlinear notes 1
上同
The same as above.