In a number of twelfth century Latin comedies, particularly De Nuntio Sagaci, The Wily Messenger, nubile age is presented as in itself a strong amatory provocation. The messenger says.
Nubere tempus erat: iuveni tua forma placebat.
This was the theme of the medieval students, so vociferously and consistently proclaimed in the Carmina Burana:
Iam aetas invaluit,
Iam umor incubuit,
Iam virgo maturuit,
Iam tumescunt ubera,
Iam frustra complacuit
Nisi fiant cetera.
Again, the same view is determinedly expressed: