Template:RQ:Massinger New Way

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Philip Massinger's work A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1st edition, 1633). 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:

• |chapter= – if quoting a part of the work other than the play, specify the parameter value indicated in the first column of the following table to have the template display the chapter name indicated in the second column:

• |1= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number of the play quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.
• |2= or |page= – mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, 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/newwaytopayoldde00mass_0/page/n16/mode/1up, specify |page=16. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and/or to link to the online version of the work.
• |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].
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures B, verso – B2, 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 either links the URL of the online version of the work to the chapter name if one is specified, or displays it as a superscript link after the title of the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the IA page number is specified, the template can determine the act number of the play. However, the template is unable to do this if IA page 33 is quoted from. In these cases, use this parameter to specify the act number of the play in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

• |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.

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Massinger New Way|scene=ii|sig=[I3]|verso=1|page=75|passage={{...}} I heere doe damne thy licence, / Forbidding thee euer to '''tap''', or dravv.}};
  • {{RQ:Massinger New Way|ii|sig=[I3]|verso=1|75|{{...}} I heere doe damne thy licence, / Forbidding thee euer to '''tap''', or dravv.}}
• Result:
  • 1625 (date written), Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts: A Comœdie , London: E P for Henry Seyle, , published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, signature , verso:

    […] I heere doe damne thy licence, / Forbidding thee euer to tap, or dravv.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Massinger New Way|scene=ii|page=75|passage=Thou neuer hadſt in thy houſe to ſtay mens ſtomackes / A peece of ''Suffolke'' cheeſe, or Gammon of Bacon, / Or any '''eſculent''', as the learned call it, / For their emolument, but ſheere drinke only.}}
• Result:
  • 1625 (date written), Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts: A Comœdie , London: E P for Henry Seyle, , published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:

    Thou neuer hadſt in thy houſe to ſtay mens ſtomackes / A peece of Suffolke cheeſe, or Gammon of Bacon, / Or any eſculent, as the learned call it, / For their emolument, but ſheere drinke only.