"Y butein wen fain fwynnf--o honoch I hono maddeuaf, Tan frig pren a heulwen haf, Teg anterth, t'rawed gyntaf!"
The words have been translated by someone something as follows:--
"If you can be so cruel, Let the kind wanton jade, Who oftenest met me in this shade, On summer's morn, by love inclined, Let her strike first, and I'm resigned."
Dafydd's words had the desired effect. The young women began to question each other's purity, which led to a regular quarrel between them, and, during the scuffle, the poet escaped safe and sound.
After this the Poet fell in love with the daughter of one Madog Lawgam, whose name was Morfudd, and in her honour he wrote many songs, and it seems that he ever remained true to this lady. They were secretly married in the woodland; but Morfudd's parents disliked the Poet so much for some reason or other, that the beautiful young lady was taken away from him and compelled to marry an old man known as Bwa Bach, or Little Hunchback. Dafydd was tempted to elope with Morfudd, but he was found, fined and put in prison; but through the kindness of the men of Glamorgan, who highly esteemed the Poet, he was released. After this, it seems that Dafydd was love-sick as long as he lived, and at last died of love, and he left the following directions for his funeral:--
"My spotless shroud shall be of summer flowers, My coffin from out the woodland bowers: The flowers of wood and wild shall be my pall, My bier, light forest branches green and tall; And thou shalt see the white gulls of the main In thousands gather then to bear my train!"
One of Dafydd's chief patrons was his kinsman, the famous and noble Ivor Hael, Lord of Macsaleg, from whose stock the present Viscount Tredegar is a direct descendant, and, in judging the character of the Poet we must take into consideration what was the moral condition of the country in the fourteenth century.
But to come to more modern times, tradition has it that a young man named Morgan Jones of Dolau Gwyrddon, in the Vale of Teivi, fell in love with the Squire of Dyffryn Llynod's daughter. The young man and the young woman were passionately in love with each other; but the Squire, who was a staunch Royalist, refused to give his consent to his daughter's marriage with Morgan Jones, as the young man's grandfather had fought for Cromwell. The courtship between the lovers was kept on for years in secret, and the Squire banished his daughter to France more than once. At last the young lady fell a victim to the small pox, and died. Just before her death, her lover came to see her, and caught the fever from her, and he also died. His last wish was that he should be buried in the same grave as the one he had loved so dearly, but this was denied him.