Yet each doth in himselfe it well perceive to bee.
Therefore a God him sage Antiquity
Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call—
Spenser,
Faerie Queene
, ii. 12.
Agdistis, a genius of human form, uniting the two senses and born of an accidental union between Jupiter and Tellus. The story of Agdistis and Atys is apparently a myth of the generative powers of nature.
Aged (The), so Wemmick's father is called. He lived in "the castle at Walworth." Wemmick at "the castle" and Wemmick in business are two "different beings."
Wemmick's house was a little wooden cottage,
in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of