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sang the wandering clerks in the Middle Ages, the jolly Goliards, and they extolled the youth who was lucky enough to kiss the mouth of such a woman:

And, they went on to say, "on every maiden's lips the kiss sits like a rose which only longs to be plucked":

The old German minnesingers use the expression Küssblümlein (kiss-floweret), and a bard of the Netherlands sings: "My beloved is my summer, my beloved is my joy, all the roses bloom every time she gives me a kiss":

But all this is only poetry, merely feeble imageries which only give an entirely weak