Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.8

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⁴ It is from France that those usually even high-born, and very high-born maidens, who often throw themselves, and at once, into the stranger hero’s arms, or who are anyhow utterly wretched if he does not prove them his manhood in the most evident way within a very few hours after they have first known him—it is from France that these maidens then came into the literature of the German Middle Ages; for the older writings of the Germans, found before the courtly culture, represent the woman in love in quite another light.