"Quicquid agant alii,
Juvenes amemus."
It may be added, in conclusion, that the sweethearts of our students
seem to have been mostly girls of the working and rustic classes,
sometimes women of bad fame, rarely married women. In no case that has
come beneath my notice is there any hint that one of them aspired to
such amours with noble ladies as distinguished the Troubadours. A
democratic tone, a tone of the proletariate, is rather strangely blent
with the display of learning, and with the more than common literary
skill apparent in their work.