Template:RQ:Milton Free Commonwealth

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Milton's work The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth published in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton (1st edition, 1698, volume II); the 1st edition (London: T N and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman , 1660; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) of the work. If using |pages= to quote a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=783–784.
  • 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 the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |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:Milton Free Commonwealth|page=793|passage=This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the '''gentilizing''' ''Iſraelites'', who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of ''{{w|Samuel}}''’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonwealth, than the Violence of '']''’s Sons was imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Milton Free Commonwealth|793|This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the '''gentilizing''' ''Iſraelites'', who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of ''{{w|Samuel}}''’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonwealth, than the Violence of '']''’s Sons was imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.}}
• Result:
  • 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:

    This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the gentilizing Iſraelites, who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of Samuel’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonwealth, than the Violence of Eli’s Sons was imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.

This template relies on {{RQ:Milton Collected Works}}.