This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of John Gay's works entitled The Poetical Works of John Gay (1st edition, 1812, 3 volumes) edited by Thomas Park. It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or |volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I
to |volume=III
.|2=
, |chapter=
, or |title=
– mandatory: the name of the chapter or title quoted from. If quoting from a title indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:Parameter value | Result | First page number |
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Volume II | ||
The Fan | The Fan. A Poem. (1713)
|
page 71 |
Trivia | Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London. (1716)
|
page 19 |
Volume III | ||
The Toilet | The Toilet. A Town Eclogue. | page 61 |
|subtitle=
– a subtitle quoted from.|book=
, |canto=
, or |part=
– the book, canto, or part number of the title quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|3=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory in some cases: 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).|4=
, |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:John Gay Poetical Works|volume=III|title=The Toilet|page=63|passage=Who there frequents at these unmodish hours, / But ancient matrons with their '''frizzled''' towers, / And grey religious maids?}}
; or{{RQ:John Gay Poetical Works|III|The Toilet|63|Who there frequents at these unmodish hours, / But ancient matrons with their '''frizzled''' towers, / And grey religious maids?}}
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