Edict Re-enfeoffing Won (沅), Marquis of Suchun, as Marquis of Gyeseong改封壽春侯沅爲桂城侯敎書官誥 敎書
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 81 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 34 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.
Now to love one's own flesh and blood close by is where feeling gathers. Therefore from of old, when one in the sovereign's seat enfeoffed and set up his sons and younger brothers, even at the tender age when the milk teeth are being changed he would still let a seal-cord as big as a peck hang at the child's waist and have him come to court as a matter of course; such is the reason of it. How much more is there to be said of one advanced in years and long in virtue, who stands out as a worthy man of the royal house and who, with shining seal-cord and jade tablet, trod the grade of a feudal lord long ago? How should I not enfeoff him anew in a fine district and so show him an uncommonly ample favour? And so forth.