An integral part of the new charm associated with the courting try its pretence of being a secret anywhere between a couple of couples

1885 ANFOESOLDEB YN NGHYMRU. You are not an ethical country, and you understand it,” ebe bardd Seisnig diweddar. “Nid ydych genedl foesol, a chwi a’i gwyddoch.” … Diffyg ystyriaeth o’r sit uchel a ddyry y Grefydd Gristionogol i’r ystad briodasol yw un rheswm mawr paham year ystyrir “caru yn y gwely” yn beth mor ddiniwed. Dyma’r paham y dywedir cyn lleied in the morning y pwys o gadw y seithfed gorch- ymyn ar year aelwyd gartref dyma’r paham year 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 composed his thoughts away from their early years during the 1953 Buddy Jams’s motto throughout the days of their young people was Canu’r dydd a charu’r nos” (“Play in the day time hours and you may like by night”)

1890 (about) D.J. Williams (1885-1970) was born in the fresh parish of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. .. “For those who wooed, wooed when the sun goes down” that is the way it try with our company, taking the girld regarding the reasonable of the auction, or perhaps the cymanfa or the weekday appointment otherwise making a scheduled appointment to go and ‘knock’ (gnoco) on her behalf, on window from this lady resting appartment, that was the customized, and in case the fresh snap was in best quarter and all of circumstances favorable you went to your cooking area unofficially whenever people was at sleep, and there you talked together with her for the hearth before the very early circumstances of your own day. The state title for it was ‘getting house’ (cael ty). … The two manage hardly ever get noticed together in public areas right until these people were towards verge of going hitched – even though everything you try once the plain to the world most importantly due to the fact if your banns is titled couple of years because. The fresh customs out-of courting in bed, in the event it ever had become a habit from the district, was went just before my day. Far nonesence could have been authored about matter by the people entirely innocent of your own artwork. … brand new stringent stress to your man’s resides in the existing months remaining folks of working assiduously of at the beginning of the brand new day right up until later at night, to make sure that there can be very little oportunity getting public sex certainly young people except of the stealing about strong hours of one’s evening. Williams, D.J., Hen Dy Ffarm (1953), pp. 109-110 Interpreted because of the Waldo Williams, The outdated Farmhouse, (1961), pp. 134-135

1891 I am required with the correspondent who was simply suitable to help you pass me personally a duplicate of one’s declaration of the home out-of Compassion into Diocese away from St. David’s. That it statement excellent facts that our Church isn’t unmindful of immorality that is, I have to state, widespread on the diocese. … When we been better the place to find Cardiganshire where “bundling” has been the general laws, new subscriptions aren’t liberal, and that i discover nothing throughout the areas from inside the Petty Sessional Departments of Higher liar and you may Tregaron in which the populace is actually barely outside of the barbaric stage, as to public purity. Carmarthen Log and South Wales Per week Advertiser, twenty five Sep 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 transport an excellent llygaid goleuni,” mewn lleoedd amlwg ac nid yn y gwely ym mherfeddion y nos?

1892 [page to the editor] 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 a 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 Southern area Wales Weekly Marketer, 9 September 1892