Liverpool before Sunday, and now, Sunday being past, I don't know whether I can send this by him or no. If not, it must come by Post, for I have not a frank to swear by.
Wele, wele, mi welaf nad oes dim siawns am ddyfod i Gymru; nid oes mo'r help; there is no crying after shed milk; I never was so sanguine as to promise myself any success, and therefore can have no disappointment. Yr ydwyf yn gwbl foddlon i'm tynghedfen, doed a ddêl, a gwell o lawer i mi na feddyliwyf byth am Gymru; ond rhoi fy llwyr egni i ollwng y Gymraeg dros gof, fel y mae y rhan fwyaf o'm cydwladwyr hyd Loegr yn ceisio gwneuthur, hyd onid yw 'swil ganddynt glywed son am Gymru, a Chymry, a Chymraeg. Etto, fal y dywed y philosophydd paganaidd, (pan oedd yn methu dygymmod â Christnogaeth, o herwydd ei symlrwydd a'i hawsdra, ac annysgeidiaeth yr athrawon,) Sit anima mea cum philosophis, h.y. Bid fy enaid i gyda'r philosophyddion, felly, "Bid fy ngorff innau gyda'r Cymry,' ie, a'm rhandir, a'm coelbren, a'm hetifeddiaeth yn y byd yma, os gwel Duw'n dda. Pe medrwn unwaith gael y goreu arnaf fy hun, a threchu'r naturiol hoffder sydd gennyf i'm iaith a'm gwlad, dyn a fyddwn. Ond beth dâl siarad? A fo da gan Dduw ys dir? Ai ê, crefft go ddiystyr yw'r eiddo'r seiri cerrig yn eich tyb chwi ? Gadewch iddi. I do verily believe that (as it is now practis'd) it has lost a great deal of its primitive beauty, but still I don't think it quite so insignificnt as your friend represented it. Whoever your friend was, I wish he had been more his own friend, if he was a real Mason of any degree above an apprentice. Gwae a lygro ei gydwybod heb ennill dim. But as to associating with those you don't like, that neither is, nor can be any objection of the craft; for surely, to shake hands and give a Howd'y, are but acts of common civility, and may be done to any acquaintance, Mason or no Mason, and to any more the craft does not bind you. But you'll say, you sit in the same room on lodge nights; true, and so do you and many a wicked vile fellow every Sunday; and yet, whatever these do out of doors, you are not afraid to be tainted by their presence at that place, and the reason is, because they are not there at liberty to play any of their dog-tricks. We are here (as to nation) Welsh,
