Patent of Office 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 官誥
云云。懿親重德。當以名藩處之。徙食改封。載諸前史多矣。宜循舊典。用奬宗英。具官某。量宇泓深。神姿溫裕。弘雅樂善。蹈東平之蹤。嚴矜有威。得沛憲之體。身雖生於紈綺。手不捨於縑緗。制作參造化之機。學識洞天人之際。象船構思。難窺智略之淵源。駝鈿定封。夙峙邦家之屛翰。頃者忽値風波之駭。暫侵嵐瘴之熏。金經鍊而愈佳。祗益貴耳。月遇虧而旋滿。庸何傷乎。召復已還。眷懷彌渥。更峙苴茅之典。期爲固蔕之圖。大尉二公之魁。漢省司馬然後置。柱國四等之極。楚與令尹而同。尊如匪其人。曷堪是任。可特授守太尉上柱國桂城侯。嗚戲。卿本是恂恂長者。朕不必惇惇訓之。然勞謙有終。是君子之德也。斯須不可離。制節謹度。迺諸侯之孝也。朝夕愼所履。飭躬不怠。流裕無窮。云云。
And so forth.
A fair kinsman who is weighty in virtue ought to be set in a renowned fief. Of moving the district whose revenue he eats and altering his title of enfeoffment, much is set down in the histories before us; it is right therefore to follow the old law and praise an outstanding man of the royal house.
So-and-so, holding such offices, is deep and broad of capacity, and warm and ample in the form given him at birth. Great and upright and rejoicing in goodness, he has trodden the traces of the King of Dongping (東平王); severe and careful and having dignity, he has got the bearing of the King of Peixian (沛獻王). Though his person was born within silken clothes, his hand has not let go the book. The skill with which he composes takes part in the loom of creation, and what he has learned and knows runs clean through the space between Heaven and man. Weaving his thoughts as one weighs an elephant with a boat, the deep springs of his wisdom and his schemes are hard to spy into; and his enfeoffment being settled with a seal figured with a camel, he has stood out from early days as a hedge of the state.
Of late he met of a sudden with a startling wind and wave and was for a time tried by the breath of the hills and the poisonous vapour of a hot land. Yet gold grows the better the more smelting it passes through, and this only adds to its preciousness; and the moon, having waned, is soon full again — what harm comes of it? He has been called in and has already returned, and my regard for him is the thicker. Again I set up the law of wrapping earth in thatch grass and giving it, and make it a scheme for making his root firm.
The Defender-in-Chief is the first of the two dukes, and in Han it was set up only after the Commander-in-Chief had been done away with; and Supreme Pillar of State is the last of the four grades, and in Chu it was the same as Chief Minister. Being lofty thus, if it be not the man, who shall bear this charge? Acting Defender-in-Chief, Supreme Pillar of State, and Marquis of Gyeseong: it may be especially bestowed.
Ah, you, my lord, are from the first a trustworthy and generous elder, and I need not stubbornly admonish you again and again. Yet to be modest while you toil and to make a good end is the virtue of a gentleman, and cannot be departed from for a moment; and to be sparing in what you spend and careful of the measure of the law is the filial piety of a feudal lord, so be careful of what you tread morning and evening. If you hold yourself in hand and are not slack, your ampleness shall flow on without end. And so forth.