Sacrificial address offered to the Eastern Peak東岳祭文
云云。人與人相知。恃舊相歡。則其所蘊蓄。無不顯陳。神明之分。亦不遠人。如其有素。寧視如新。曩者予以無似。剖符玆土。常事兩岳大王。其所賴固不貲矣。及捕孝心之黨。予又從軍。累更歲月。亦受大王之賜。獲全首領。以至今日。皆大王之力也。然則大王之於予。不可謂之無素矣。今者逆賊蜂起。叛逆王命。國家不能容忍。命愚等討之。自入都之日。親卽祠宇。畢露深衷。佇蒙陰援。西岳大王。果顯威靈。諭致東京元惡義庇於祠下。使我軍獲之。其不負如此。豈不嘉哉。獨我大王。嗇威吝德。不以赫然靈迹。報宿昔之歡。私心不能無望。然東京元惡。則以義庇爲最。草賊之巨者。無有如勃优者。今義庇雖死。勃优猶在。若大王速顯靈威。使勃优及其支黨。就我麾下。面受誅戮。則是日也。予當大統軍師。親謝祠前。以琴瑟鍾皷倡優之伎。樂我大王。大王其不享歟。云云。
And so forth. When man and man know one another and, trusting an old bond, take pleasure in one another, there is nothing of what they have stored up within that they do not bring out and unfold. The measure of the gods too is not far from men's; and if there be a bond from the first, how should you look upon me as one newly met?
In days past I, an unworthy man, held office in this land and always served the Great Kings of the two mountains, and what I received of their strength is truly beyond reckoning. When we took Hyosim (孝心) and his crowd, I again followed the army and passed several years, and likewise received the Great King's granting and kept my life whole down to this day; and all of it is the Great King's strength. That being so, it cannot be said that the Great King has no old bond with me.
Now defiant brigands have risen like a swarm of bees and have revolted against the sovereign's command, and the kingdom could not bear to suffer it and commanded foolish men like us to strike at them. From the day I entered the Eastern Capital I went in person to the shrine and laid bare the whole of my deep heart and waited for unseen help. The Great King of the Western Peak (西岳) did indeed show forth his majestic spirit, and had Uibi (義庇), the chief of the wicked at the Eastern Capital (東京), led down below the shrine so that our soldiers took him. His not failing us was like this; and how should that not be fair?
Only our Great King is sparing of his majesty and grudging of his virtue, and does not repay the pleasure of days past with a shining trace of his numinous power; and in my private heart I cannot but have my longing.
Yet of the chiefs of the wicked at the Eastern Capital Uibi was the foremost, and of the great ones among the brigand band there is none like Baru (勃优). Now Uibi is dead, but Baru is still here. If the Great King quickly shows forth his numinous majesty, so that Baru and the crowd of his branch come forward beneath our banners and are cut down upon the spot, then on that day I shall fitly lead out the army in great array and give thanks in person before the shrine, and delight our Great King with zither and lute, with bell and drum, and with the skill of entertainers. Will the Great King not savor it? And so forth.