Chapter XXV

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[431] The makers of love poems borrowed expressions from poems to the Virgin. Cf. Wilmanns, _Leben und Dichtung Walter’s Von der Vogelweide_, p. 179. Touches of mortal passion sometimes appear in the adoration of men for the Blessed Virgin. See _Caesar of Heisterbach_, vii. 32 and 50, and viii. 58. Of course, many suggestions were drawn also from the antique literature. See _post_, Chapter XXXII . IV. The subject of courtly and romantic love will come up properly for treatment in