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Vice Director Choe, Who Was Present, Answered in Kind, So I Matched His Rhymes Again and Respectfully Replied座客崔僕射見和。復次韻奉答。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 10 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.

滿座嘉賓競獵纓。尙容燕服老門生。君侯鑑識難欺蔽。猶把荒詞浼鏡明。

The seat is full of fair guests who vie in fastening their cap strings, yet still they receive an old graduate dressed in plain clothes. My lord's bright eye is hard to deceive and screen, and yet with coarse writing I soil that bright mirror.

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宗梓

This is Jongjae (宗梓).

予以常服赴之。

I went in everyday clothes.