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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Thomas Dekker work The Wonder of a Kingdome (1st edition, 1636). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the prologue, specify |chapter=Prologue.
• |1= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/wonderofkingdome00dekk/page/n12/mode/1up, specify |page=12. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the IA page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. The template is unable to do so if IA page 46 or 57 is quoted from, in which case |act= must be used to manually specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=III.

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if |verso= is omitted, the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted.
  • If a signature number is not indicated on a page, extrapolate it from the signature numbers before and after the page and enclose it in brackets using [ and ] For example, if the previous signature number is A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4].
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures , verso – , recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the act and scene numbers.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dekker Wonder|sig=[A3]|page=12|passage=Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / '''''December'''s'' cold hand combes my head and beard, / But ''May'' ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.}}
  • {{RQ:Dekker Wonder|sig=[A3]|12|Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / '''''December'''s'' cold hand combes my head and beard, / But ''May'' ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1633 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, , published 1636, →OCLC, Act I, signature , recto:

    Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Dekker Wonder|page=54|passage=VVhere is the gentleman? 't vvas for his ſake / I vvould have lien vvith you, vvo'd it vvere as lavvfull to '''fellovv''' nights vvith him.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1633 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdome, London: Robert Raworth for Nicholas Vavasour, , published 1636, →OCLC, Act IV:

    VVhere is the gentleman? 't vvas for his ſake / I vvould have lien vvith you, vvo'd it vvere as lavvfull to fellovv nights vvith him.