1885 ANFOESOLDEB YN NGHYMRU. You’re not an ethical nation, therefore understand it,” ebe bardd Seisnig diweddar. “Nid ydych genedl foesol, a good chwi a’i gwyddoch.” … Diffyg ystyriaeth o’r rest uchel a ddyry y Grefydd Gristionogol i’r ystad briodasol yw un rheswm mawr paham yr ystyrir “caru yn y gwely” yn beth mor ddiniwed. Dyma’r paham y dywedir cyn lleied am 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 european union hundeb yn y cysegr. Llan, 29 January 1885

He typed their recollections out of his early ages for the 1953 Brother Jams’s motto throughout the days of his young people is Canu’r dydd a great charu’r nos” (“Sing during the day and like when the sun goes down”)

1890 (about) D.J. Williams (1885-1970) grew up in the brand new parish of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. .. “Just in case you wooed, wooed when the sun goes down” which is how it are around, using girld on fair of your own public auction, or even the cymanfa or perhaps the weekday appointment or and then make a consultation going and you can ‘knock’ (gnoco) on her, with the window out-of this lady sleeping appartment, that was the fresh new individualized, and if new cinch was at suitable one-fourth as well as affairs favourable your went on kitchen on the side whenever folks was at sleep, there your spoke along with her on fireplace till the early hours of your day. The official title for this was ‘bringing house’ (cael ty). … Both manage rarely rise above the crowd together in public areas right until these were for the verge of getting married – although that which you is actually while the ordinary to the world most importantly as if the banns had been named 2 years because the. The new culture off courting between the sheets, whether it had already been a habit in the region, is actually moved ahead of my go out. Much nonesence has been created with this matter from the someone totally simple of your own art. … new stringent tension towards the man’s resides in the existing days kept folk at work assiduously off at the beginning of this new early morning right up until late later in the day, in order that there was not much oportunity for societal intercourse certainly one of young people except because of the taking about deep hours of one’s night. Williams, D.J., Hen Dy Ffarm (1953), pp. 109-110 Translated of the Waldo Williams, The outdated Farmhouse, (1961), pp. 134-135

1891 I’m obliged with the correspondent who was suitable to forward myself a copy of the report of the home from Compassion into Diocese off St. David’s. This report is useful evidence our Chapel is not unmindful of one’s immorality which is, I need to state, rampant in the diocese. … Whenever we come nearer the place to find Cardiganshire where “bundling” has been the entire rule, the memberships commonly liberal, and i also find not one on districts inside the Petty Sessional Departments out of Higher liar and you will Tregaron where population try rarely from the barbaric stage, as to social purity. Carmarthen Record and you will South Wales Weekly Marketer, twenty-five September 1891

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1892 [page to your publisher] MOESOLDEB CARU … Gwareder ein gwlad o hyn allan oddi wrth y fath trferiad isel an effective gwaradwyddus Tra yr ydym yn llawenhau fod y fath yna o garu ar drengu air-conditioning yn cael eu ftieiddio gan bob mab an effective merch syn wyrol, otherwise hyny year ydym yn llwyr gredu y dylid difodi y caru nosawl a’r caru yn y gwely. Carmarthen Record and you can Southern area Wales A week Marketer, 9 September 1892