This form of the word is nearer to the Hebrew original than the more familiar _Jesus_.

It is often (though not exclusively) used in ejaculation and prayer, as here, and was perhaps supposed to be the vocative form.
27, 92--*I wis.* This is a misinterpretation of Middle English _iwis_, from Old English _gewis_, "certainly." 29, 129--*The lady sank,* etc.

The threshold of a house is, in folk-lore, a sacred place, and evil things cannot cross but have to be carried over it.
142--*I cannot speak,* etc.

Geraldine blesses "her gracious stars" (l.

114), but cannot join in praise to the Holy Virgin.
30, 167--*And jealous of the listening air*.