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As the Monk Replied, I Matched His Rhymes Again and Gave Him These Lines in Jest其僧見和。復次韻戱贈。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 4 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.
麻谷禪棲足自資。如何來寄小庵卑。空門無檢今方識。一首詩中律莫知。
The meditation hall of Magok (麻谷) is ample enough to lodge your body, so why have you come to stay in this low little hermitage? Now I see that there is no discipline in the Buddhist gate: you do not even know the metre of a single poem.
Interlinear notes 2
聞自麻谷來。
I heard that he had come from Magok.
律 — a jest turning on one character that means both the metre (level and oblique tones) of a poem and monastic discipline. — Translator