Template:RQ:Lyly Mother Bombie

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Lyly's work Mother Bombie (2nd edition, 1598); the 1st edition (London: Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby, 1594; →OCLC) is not currently available online. 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:

• |1= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number of the play quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.

Act V, scene i is incorrectly indicated as scene 8; specify it as |scene=i.

• |2= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is not paginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive ("IA") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/motherbombieasit00lyly/page/n10/mode/1up, specify |page=10. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |act= – in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, it is unable to do so if page 22, 36, or 47 is specified, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if |verso= is omitted, the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted.
  • If a signature number is not indicated on a page, extrapolate it from the signature numbers before and after the page and enclose it in brackets using [ and ] For example, if the previous signature number is A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4]: see the example below.
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures A2, verso – A3, recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the act and scene numbers.
• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |4=, |t=, or |translation= – a translation of the passage quoted into contemporary English.
• |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.

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Lyly Mother Bombie|act=III|scene=iv|sig=[E4]|verso=1|page=47|passage=I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. '''''Exit''' Bom''.}} (the act number must be specified as IA page 47 is specified); or
  • {{RQ:Lyly Mother Bombie|act=III|iv|sig=[E4]|verso=1|47|I take no mony, but good words, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farewell. '''''Exit''' Bom''.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. , 2nd edition, London: Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, signature , verso:

    I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie].

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Lyly Mother Bombie|scene=ii|page=55|passage=The more aſſe he, if he had arreſted a mare inſtead of an horſe, it had been a ſlight ouerſight, but to arreſt a man that hath no likeneſſe of a horſe, is flat lunacie or '''alecie'''.}} (the template can determine the act number)
• Result:
  • c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. , 2nd edition, London: Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:

    The more aſſe he, if he had arreſted a mare inſtead of an horſe, it had been a ſlight ouerſight, but to arreſt a man that hath no likeneſſe of a horſe, is flat lunacie or alecie.