1885 ANFOESOLDEB YN NGHYMRU. You’re not an ethical country, and also you know it,” ebe bardd Seisnig diweddar. “Nid ydych genedl foesol, a chwi a’i gwyddoch.” … BayanlarД±n SeГ§imi TanД±Еџma Servisi Diffyg ystyriaeth o’r lie uchel a beneficial ddyry y Grefydd Gristionogol i’r ystad briodasol yw united nations rheswm mawr paham year ystyrir “caru yn y gwely” yn beth mor ddiniwed. Dyma’r paham y dywedir cyn lleied are y pwys o gadw y seithfed gorch- ymyn ar yr aelwyd gartref dyma’r paham yr eir heibio we waith y level ieuainc yn llithro cyn priodi,” fel rhywbeth bach di-ystyr; dyma’r paham y dewisa cynifer gytuno a’u gilydd yn swyddfa y cofrestrydd yn hytrach na myned i geisio bendith y Nef ar eu hundeb yn y cysegr. Llan, 30 January 1885
The guy typed his recollections off his early years inside the 1953 Bro Jams’s motto throughout the times of their youngsters are Canu’r dydd an excellent charu’r nos” (“Sing by-day and like when the sun goes down”)
1890 (about) D.J. Williams (1885-1970) grew up in the fresh parish regarding Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. .. “In the event you wooed, wooed by night” that’s the way it was around, taking the girld in the fair of public auction, or even the cymanfa or perhaps the weekday fulfilling or and come up with an appointment to go and you will ‘knock’ (gnoco) for her, into the windows of the woman asleep appartment, that has been the fresh new individualized, while the fresh new wind was in the right one-fourth and all things favourable you ran with the cooking area quietly whenever everybody else was a student in bed, there you talked with her toward hearth before the early days of your own early morning. The state term for it was ‘taking house’ (cael ty). … The two manage rarely rise above the crowd together with her publicly right until they were towards brink of getting partnered – whether or not everything is since plain to everyone at large as the in the event the banns was actually entitled two years since. The society from courting during sex, if this had come a practice on the district, is gone just before my personal day. Far nonesence might have been composed on this subject amount by some body totally simple of your artwork. … new stringent pressure to the mans stays in the outdated months leftover group where you work assiduously regarding at the beginning of the day right up until late at night, so as that discover very little oportunity to own personal gender one of young people but because of the taking throughout the strong circumstances of one’s night. Williams, D.J., Hen Dy Ffarm (1953), pp. 109-110 Interpreted by Waldo Williams, The old Farmhouse, (1961), pp. 134-135
1891 I am required on the correspondent who was good enough to help you send myself a duplicate of your own statement of the property regarding Compassion to the Diocese regarding St. David’s. So it report is good proof that our Chapel isn’t unmindful of your immorality that is, I must state, widespread on the diocese. … Whenever we come nearer home to Cardiganshire in which “bundling” is still all round rule, the latest memberships are not liberal, and i also discover nothing regarding the areas for the Petty Sessional Departments from Top liar and Tregaron where in actuality the population is barely outside of the barbaric phase, as regards social love. Carmarthen Log and Southern Wales Weekly Advertiser, twenty-five September 1891
Os yw priodas yn addas, air-con os oes rhaid ymgyfeillachu cyn priodi (fel y credwn fod), onid yw yn addas i wneyd hyny “yng ngwyneb haul a good llygaid goleuni,” mewn lleoedd amlwg air cooling nid yn y gwely ym mherfeddion y nos?
1892 [page into editor] MOESOLDEB CARU … Gwareder ein gwlad o hyn allan oddi wrth y fath trferiad isel an excellent gwaradwyddus Tra year ydym yn llawenhau fod y fath yna o garu ar drengu ac yn cael eu ftieiddio gan bob mab good merch syn wyrol, or hyny yr ydym yn llwyr gredu y dylid difodi y caru nosawl a’r caru yn y gwely. Carmarthen Diary and you may Southern area Wales Per week Marketer, 9 September 1892