"Also, the young wife, together with her father and mother, Dafydd and Gwenllian Davies, together with her brothers and sisters, the young wife and Dafydd William Shinkin Dafydd of Cwm, the young wife's grandfather, desire that all donations and pwython, due to them, be paid that afternoon to the hand of the young husband and wife at Llety'r Gofid.
"The young husband and wife and those who'll live the longest, do promise to repay you every gift you will be pleased to give to the young couple, whenever called upon to do so, should that happen next morning or at any other time?"
The Bidder then repeated in Welsh a most comic and humorous song for the occasion.
Another well-known "Gwahoddwr," or Bidder in Cardiganshire was an old man named Stephen, who flourished at the end of the eighteenth, and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
He was commonly known as Stephen Wahoddwr, or Stephen the Bidder, and concerning whom the celebrated poet "Daniel Ddu o Geredigion," wrote to the "Cambrian Briton," in March, 1822, as follows:--
"There is an old man in this neighbourhood of the name of Stephen, employed in the vocation of 'Gwahoddwr,' who displayed, in my hearing, so much comic talent and humour in the recitation of his Bidding-song (which he complained, was, by repetition, become uninteresting to his auditors) as to induce me to furnish him with some kind of fresh matter. My humble composition, adapted, in language and conceptions, as far as I could make it, to common taste and capacities, this man now delivers in his rounds; and I send it you as a specimen of a Bidder's Song, hoping that your readers will be in some measure amused by its perusal:--
"Dydd da i chwi, bobl, o'r hynaf i'r baban, Mae Stephan Wahoddwr a chwi am ymddiddan, Gyfeillion da mwynaidd, os felly'ch dymuniad, Cewch genyf fy neges yn gynhes ar gariad.
Y mae rhyw greadur trwy'r byd yn grwydredig, Nis gwn i yn hollol ai glanwedd ai hyllig, Ag sydd i laweroedd yn gwneuthur doluriad, Ar bawb yn goncwerwr, a'i enw yw Cariad.
Yr ifanc yn awchus wna daro fynycha', A'i saeth trwy ei asen mewn modd truenusa'; Ond weithiau a'i fwa fe ddwg yn o fuan O dan ei lywodraeth y rhai canol oedran.
Weithiau mae'n taro yn lled annaturiol, Nes byddant yn babwyr yn wir yr hen bobl, Mi glywais am rywun a gas yn aflawen Y bendro'n ei wegil yn ol pedwar ugain.