Template:RQ:Dryden Mac Flecknoe

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Dryden's work Mac Flecknoe (1702); the 1st edition (London: D. Green, 1682; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The work also contains John Oldham's work Spencer's Ghost. The template be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books. (Archived at the Internet Archive.)

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page numbers of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the title quoted from (Dryden's Mac Flecknoe or Oldham's Spencer's Ghost), and to link to the online version of the work.

• |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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dryden Mac Flecknoe|page=4|passage=My vvarbling Lute, the Lute I '''vvhilom''' ſtrung / VVhen to King ''John'' of ''Portugal'' I ſung, / VVas but the Prelude to that glorious Day, / VVhen thou on Silver ''Thames'' did'ſt cut thy vvay, / VVith vvell-tim'd Oars before the Royal Barge, / Svvell'd vvith the Pride of thy Celeſtial charge; {{...}}|footer=Spelled {{m|en|whilome}} in the 1st edition (1682).}}; or
  • {{RQ:Dryden Mac Flecknoe|4|My vvarbling Lute, the Lute I '''vvhilom''' ſtrung / VVhen to King ''John'' of ''Portugal'' I ſung, / VVas but the Prelude to that glorious Day, / VVhen thou on Silver ''Thames'' did'ſt cut thy vvay, / VVith vvell-tim'd Oars before the Royal Barge, / Svvell'd vvith the Pride of thy Celeſtial charge; {{...}}|footer=Spelled {{m|en|whilome}} in the 1st edition (1682).}}
• Result:
  • c. 1678 (date written; published 1682), J Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. , London: H Hills, , published 1709, →OCLC, page 4:

    My vvarbling Lute, the Lute I vvhilom ſtrung / VVhen to King John of Portugal I ſung, / VVas but the Prelude to that glorious Day, / VVhen thou on Silver Thames did'ſt cut thy vvay, / VVith vvell-tim'd Oars before the Royal Barge, / Svvell'd vvith the Pride of thy Celeſtial charge; […]

    Spelled whilome in the 1st edition (1682).