Germain's Lips

Can any of your correspondents state the origin of the proverb, "As just as Germain's lips"? It occurs in Calfhill's *Answer to Martiall*, p. 345. ed. Parker Soc. In the *Sermons and Remains of Bishop Latimer*, published by the same society (p. 425.), this phrase is thus extended: —"Even as just as Germain's lips, which came not together by nine mile, *ut vulgo dicunt*." Is it possible that the following words of Bishop Barlow can be a various reading or corruption of the saying? "Now heere the Censurer makes an *Almaine leape*, skipping 3 whole pages together."—*Answer to a Catholike Englishm…