This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Michael Drayton's works entitled Minor Poems of Michael Drayton (1st edition, 1907). 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=
or |poem=
– the name of the "chapter" or poem quoted from. This parameter may be omitted if quoting from "Nimphidia", "The Quest of Cynthia", or "The Shepheards Sirena".Parameter value | Result | First page number |
---|---|---|
Odes | ||
To the New Yeere | To the New Yeere | page 59 |
|year=
– if the template is unable to determine the year of publication of a poem, use this parameter to specify it.|1=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
|pages=10–11
.|pageref=
to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|line=
or |lines=
– the line number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of line numbers, separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash.|2=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– a passage to be quoted from the work.|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.{{RQ:Drayton Minor Poems|poem=To the Deere Chyld of the Muses, and His Euer Kind ], Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire|page=1|passage=Vovchsafe to grace these rude '''vnpolish'd''' rymes, / Which long (dear friend) haue slept in sable night, / And, come abroad now in these glorious tymes, / Can hardly brook the purenes of the light.}}
; or{{RQ:Drayton Minor Poems|poem=To the Deere Chyld of the Muses, and His Euer Kind ], Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire|1|Vovchsafe to grace these rude '''vnpolish'd''' rymes, / Which long (dear friend) haue slept in sable night, / And, come abroad now in these glorious tymes, / Can hardly brook the purenes of the light.}}
{{RQ:Drayton Minor Poems|poem=From Eclogue ij|pages=240–241|pageref=241|lines=4–8|passage=The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they '''gyre''' swift or slowe: {{...}}}}
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