Template:RQ:John Gay Poems

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:John Gay Poems/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of John Gay's works entitled Poems on Several Occasions (1st edition, 1720, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive):

• Volume I (Rural Sports, The Fan, The Shepherd's Week, Trivia, The What D'Ye Call It).
• Volume II (poems; Dione).

(Both volumes are in the same file.) Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:John Gay Trivia}}), use it instead of this template.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |scene= or |subtitle= – if quoting from The What D'Ye Call It in volume I, the scene number in uppercase Roman numerals, or the name of the subtitle.
• |1=, |chapter=, or |poem= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from one of the poems in volume II, the name of the poem.

• |act= and |scene= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from Dione in volume II, the act number in uppercase Roman numerals and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals.
• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of numbers, separate the first and last numbers of the range with an en dash, like this: |lines=10–11.
• |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 name of the title quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |3=, |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.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:John Gay Poems|lines=337–340|page=20|passage=See hovv the vvell-taught pointer leads the vvay: / The ſcent grovvs vvarm; he ſtops; he ſprings the prey; / The flutt'ring '''coveys''' from the ſtubble riſe, / And on ſvvift vving divide the ſounding ſkies; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: Jacob Tonson, , and Bernard Lintot, , published 1720, →OCLC, page 20, lines 337–340:

    See hovv the vvell-taught pointer leads the vvay: / The ſcent grovvs vvarm; he ſtops; he ſprings the prey; / The flutt'ring coveys from the ſtubble riſe, / And on ſvvift vving divide the ſounding ſkies; […]