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a. 1733, [John] Gay, The Distress’d Wife. A Comedy, London: Thomas Astley , published 1743, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Gay's work The Distress'd Wife (1st edition, 1743). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.|2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11.
- You must also use
|pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.|footer= – a comment about 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.
Examples
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:John Gay Distress'd Wife|scene=i|page=8|passage=VVhat think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are '''Hood-vvinks''' that VVives have ready upon every Occaſion.}}; or{{RQ:John Gay Distress'd Wife|i|8|VVhat think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are '''Hood-vvinks''' that VVives have ready upon every Occaſion.}}
- Result:
a. 1733, [John] Gay, The Distress’d Wife. A Comedy, London: Thomas Astley , published 1743, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 8:VVhat think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-vvinks that VVives have ready upon every Occaſion.
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