An integral part of the new appeal associated with courting was the pretence of being a key ranging from two lovers
Operating-system 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 transport a great llygaid goleuni,” mewn lleoedd amlwg air cooling nid yn y gwely ym mherfeddion y nos?
1885 ANFOESOLDEB YN NGHYMRU. You are not a moral nation, and also you understand it,” ebe bardd Seisnig diweddar. “Nid ydych genedl foesol, a chwi a’i gwyddoch.” … Diffyg ystyriaeth o’r lie uchel an excellent 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 year 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
1890 (about) D.J. Williams (1885-1970) was born in brand new parish out of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. .. “In the event you wooed, wooed when the sun goes down” that is the way it is actually around, taking the girld regarding fair of your public auction, and/or cymanfa or even the weekday conference otherwise while making a scheduled appointment to visit and you may ‘knock’ (gnoco) on her, into screen off the woman sleep appartment, which had been the custom, whenever the new breeze was a student in the best one-fourth and all sorts of affairs favourable you ran for the home quietly whenever folks was a student in bed, and there you spoke along with her towards the hearth before very early days of your own morning. The state identity for this try ‘delivering house’ (cael ty). … The two do hardly ever be seen together with her in public areas right up until they were to your verge of getting hitched – regardless if everything was once the plain to the world in particular due to the fact in case the banns was titled two years as the. New society of courting during intercourse, when it ever endured been a practice regarding the region, are gone prior to my personal day. Far nonesence could have been written on this subject count of the someone totally simple of your ways. … the latest strict pressure into man’s lives in the outdated weeks remaining someone where you work assiduously away from at the beginning of the latest day right until late in the evening, in order that there’s little oportunity to possess societal gender among teenagers except by the stealing throughout the strong circumstances of the evening. Williams, D.J., Hen Dy Ffarm (1953), pp. 109-110 Interpreted from the Waldo Williams, The existing Farmhouse, (1961), pp. 134-135
The guy penned their memory out-of his very early decades in 1953 Buddy Jams’s slogan on the times of their youthfulness was Canu’r dydd a beneficial charu’r nos” (“Play by day and you can love when the sun goes down”)
1891 I’m required toward correspondent who was suitable so you’re able to send myself a copy of the declaration of the house from Compassion towards Diocese away from St. David’s. That it statement is right evidence that our Chapel isn’t unmindful of your immorality that’s, I want to say, widespread on diocese. … As soon as we been closer home to Cardiganshire in which “bundling” is still all round code, new memberships commonly liberal, and i discover not one on areas for the Petty Sessional Divisions off Upper liar and you may Tregaron the spot where the inhabitants try barely outside of the barbaric stage, as to public love. Carmarthen Record and you may Southern Wales A week Marketer, 25 September 1891
1892 [letter into the editor] kasidie MOESOLDEB CARU … Gwareder ein gwlad o hyn allan oddi wrth y fath trferiad isel good gwaradwyddus Tra yr ydym yn llawenhau fod y fath yna o garu ar drengu ac yn cael eu ftieiddio gan bob mab a beneficial merch syn wyrol, otherwise hyny yr ydym yn llwyr gredu y dylid difodi y caru nosawl a’r caru yn y gwely. Carmarthen Record and you will Southern Wales Each week Advertiser, nine September 1892
