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 41 8 CONSOLATIONS OF SOLITUDE

gation by a mob, his concealment in a privy, his flight from England, his contemptuous reception upon the Continent, his appointment to the rank of Field Marshal by way of consolation, and his death, which quickly fol- lowed, are all circumstances too recent and too well known to need expla- nation here.

^9 The word Love, herein several times personified (not in the sense of Amor), has been made masculine or feminine as the case required. Here Divine Love is meant, referred to by a pronoun in the masculine. In most other instances, it has been used in the sense of Benevolence, or the Latin Caritas, and then made feminine, as in " The Soul's Invocation," q. v. " She our physician," &c.

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