Another more inward aspect of contemporary religion has also affected her: the cult of the Holy Name of Jesus. This beautiful devotion was specially characteristic of English personal religion in the late Middle Ages, and is strongly marked in the writings of the mystics; especially Hilton and Rolle. The great popularity in England of the hymn _Jesu Dulcis Memoria_, and the many vernacular imitations of it current in Julian’s day, helped in the spread of this cult; with which was associated that intense and highly emotional preoccupation with the physical accidents of the Passion so constantly reflected in her visionary experience. “O good Jesu!” cried Rolle, “my heart thou hast bound in love of Thy Name and now I cannot but sing it”; and he spoke not for himself only but for all the best religious lyrists of the early fourteenth century, whose characteristic mood was that of personal, intimate, and sorrowing love of Jesus. “Sweet Jesu, now will I sing To thee, a song of love longing. Teach me, Lord, thy love song With sweet tears ever among.” Thus, one of these Middle English poets could write: “Jesu, well owe I to love thee For that me showed the roodë tree, The crown of thorns, the nailës three, The sharp spear that through-stong thee, Jesu of love is sooth tokening Thy head down-bowed to love-kissing, Thine arms spread to love-clipping, Thy side all open to love-showing.”