Template:RQ:Middleton Works

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote a collection of Thomas Middleton's works edited by Arthur Henry Bullen entitled The Works of Thomas Middleton (1st edition, 1885–1886, 8 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

Where a quotation template for a specific work exists (for example, {{RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring Girle}}), use that template instead of this one.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=VIII.
• |2=, |chapter=, or |play= – mandatory: the chapter or name of the play quoted from. (If quoting from the preface or introduction, use |chapter=.) If the parameter is given the value indicated in the first column of the following table, the template will produce the result indicated in the second column:

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• |3= or |act= – mandatory in some cases: the act number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |4= or |scene= – mandatory in some cases: the scene number quoted from 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.
• |5= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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 or |pages=x–xi.
  • 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |6=, |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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Middleton Works|volume=VI|play=The Spanish Gipsy|act=II|scene=i|page=142|passage=If there be any fault in the verses, I can mend it extempore; for a stitch in a man's stocking not taken up in time, '''ravels''' out all the rest.}}
  • {{RQ:Middleton Works|VI|The Spanish Gipsy|II|i|142|If there be any fault in the verses, I can mend it extempore; for a stitch in a man's stocking not taken up in time, '''ravels''' out all the rest.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1623 (date written; published 1653), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, “The Spanish Gipsy”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton  (The English Dramatists), volume VI, London: John C. Nimmo , published 1885, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 142:

    If there be any fault in the verses, I can mend it extempore; for a stitch in a man's stocking not taken up in time, ravels out all the rest.

    The spelling has been modernized.