Template:RQ:Milton Paradise Lost

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1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC:

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Milton's book Paradise Lost (1st edition, 1667; 2nd edition, 1674; and 1873 version of the 1st edition). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

  • 1st edition (1667), arranged into 10 books.
  • 2nd edition (1674), revised and arranged into 12 books:
    • Version 1.
    • Version 2 (used only for these pages missing from version 1: 202, 203, 208–213, 242–247, and 276–281).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

1st edition (1667)
  • |1= or |page=mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_paradise-lost_milton-john_1667/page/n2/mode/1up, specify |page=2. This parameter must be specified to have the template 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 A, verso – A2, 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 book number.
  • |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) of the work quoted.
1873 version of the 1st edition
  • |year=mandatory: if quoting from the 1873 version, specify |year=1873. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1667).
  • |1= or |page=mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F08CAAAAQAAJ/page/n9/mode/1up, specify |page=9. This parameter must be specified to have the template 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 A, verso – A2, 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 book number.
  • |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) of the work quoted.
2nd edition (1674)
  • |edition=mandatory: if quoting from the 2nd edition (1674), specify |edition=2nd. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1667).
  • |chapter= – if quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
Parameter value Result
AM On Paradise Lost (by A. M.)
SB In Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ Johannis Miltoni (by S. B.)
The Verse The Verse
As the above chapters are unpaginated, use |1= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/ParadiseLost1674CopyB/page/n1/mode/1up, specify |page=1.
  • |1= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. 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.
    • 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 information must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
All versions
  • |book= – the book quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals; in the 1st edition from |book=I to |book=X, and in the 2nd edition to |book=XII. This parameter may be omitted if the page number is specified.
  • |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.

Examples

1st edition (1667)

Signature specified
  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|lines=618–619 and 624–625|sig=[F3]|verso=1|page=47|passage=hrough many a dark and drearie Vaile / They paſs'd, and many a Region dolorous, / {{...}} / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all '''prodigious''' things, {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|lines=618–619 and 624–625|sig=[F3]|verso=1|47|hrough many a dark and drearie Vaile / They paſs'd, and many a Region dolorous, / {{...}} / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all '''prodigious''' things, {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC, signature , verso, lines 618–619 and 624–625:
      [T]hrough many a dark and drearie Vaile / They paſs'd, and many a Region dolorous, / [] / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all prodigious things, []
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|lines=553–559|sig=Gg2|sigend=Gg2|versoend=1|page=236|passage=VVhat may this mean? Language of Man pronounc't / By Tongue of Brute, and human ſenſe expreſt? / The firſt at leſt of theſe I thought deni'd / To Beaſts, vvhom God on thir Creation-Day / Created mute to all articulat ſound; / The latter I '''demurre''', for in thir looks / Much reaſon, and in thir actions oft appeers.}}
  • Result:
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC, signatures Gg2, recto – Gg2, verso, lines 553–559:
      VVhat may this mean? Language of Man pronounc't / By Tongue of Brute, and human ſenſe expreſt? / The firſt at leſt of theſe I thought deni'd / To Beaſts, vvhom God on thir Creation-Day / Created mute to all articulat ſound; / The latter I demurre, for in thir looks / Much reaſon, and in thir actions oft appeers.
Signature not specified
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|lines=618–619 and 624–625|page=47|passage=hrough many a dark and drearie Vaile / They paſs'd, and many a Region dolorous, / {{...}} / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all '''prodigious''' things, {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC, lines 618–619 and 624–625:
      [T]hrough many a dark and drearie Vaile / They paſs'd, and many a Region dolorous, / [] / VVhere all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, / Perverſe, all monſtrous, all prodigious things, []

1873 version of the 1st edition

Signature not specified
  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|year=1873|lines=470–471|page=170|passage=Not uninvented that, which thou aright / Beleivſt ſo '''main''' to our ſucceſs, I bring; {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|year=1873|lines=470–471|170|Not uninvented that, which thou aright / Beleivſt ſo '''main''' to our ſucceſs, I bring; {{...}}}}; or
  • Result:
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 470–471:
      Not uninvented that, which thou aright / Beleivſt ſo main to our ſucceſs, I bring; []

2nd edition (1674)

  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|edition=2nd|book=X|page=264|passage=e through the midſt unmarkt, / In ſhevv Plebeian Angel militant / Of lovveſt order, paſt; and from the dore / Of that '''''Plutonian''''' Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1674, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , 2nd edition, London: S Simmons , →OCLC, page 264:
      [H]e through the midſt unmarkt, / In ſhevv Plebeian Angel militant / Of lovveſt order, paſt; and from the dore / Of that Plutonian Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, []