Jude the Obscure

Part I - At MarygreenYea many there be that have run out of their wits for women and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished have erred and sinned for women... O ye men how can it be but women should be strong seeing they do thus?-EsdrasPart II - At ChristminsterSave his own soul he hath no star.-Swinburne.Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit;Tempore crevit amor.-Ovid.Part III - At MelchesterFor there was no other girl O bridegroom like her!- Sappho (H. T. Wharton)Part IV - At ShastonWhoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before the Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity let him profess Papist or Protestant or what he will he is no better than a Pharisee.- J. Milton.Part V - At Aldbrickham and ElsewhereThy aerial part and all the fiery parts which are mingled in thee though by nature they have an upward tendency still in obedience to the disposition of the universe they are over-powered here in the compound mass the body.- M. Antoninus (Long).Part VI - At Christminster Again... And she humbled her body greatly and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.- Esther (Apoc.).There are two who decline a woman and I And enjoy our death in the darkness here.- R. Browning.