Template:RQ:Prior Poems

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Matthew Prior's work Poems on Several Occasions (1st and 2nd editions, 1709; and 1718 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1709; contents).
• 2nd edition (1709; contents; archived at the Internet Archive).
• 1718 version (archived at the Internet Archive) – contains poems not published in the 1st and 2nd editions, and revised versions of previously published poems).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= or |year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd edition (1709) specify |edition=2nd, and if quoting from the 1718 version specify |year=1718. If these parameters are omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1709).
• |1=, |chapter=, or |poem= – mandatory: the "chapter" or name of the poem quoted from. If the parameter is given the value specified in the first column of the following table, the template indicates the name of the poem as shown in the second column:

In the 1718 version, as the dedication, preface, and postscript are unpaginated, the template takes the following parameters:

• |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 b and the next one is c, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[b2].
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures b, verso – , 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 chapter.
• |2= or |page= – the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=GmEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11, specify |page=11.

For help with adding other poems to the template, or to link the names of poems to Wikipedia articles about the poems, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".

• |canto= – if a poem is divided into cantos, use this parameter to indicate the canto number in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |stanza= – if a poem is divided into stanzas, use this parameter to indicate the stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals (if this is how it appears in the work) or Arabic numerals (if the stanza is not explicitly numbered).
• |2= 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).

You must specify this information to have the template determine (in some cases) the part of a poem quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |3=, |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.

2nd edition (1709)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Prior Poems|poem=The Ladle|stanza=1|page=125|passage=The Scepticks think 'tvvas long ago, / Since Gods came dovvn '''''Incognito'''''; / To ſee vvho vvere their Friends or Foes, / And hovv our Actions fell or roſe.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Prior Poems|The Ladle|stanza=1|125|The Scepticks think 'tvvas long ago, / Since Gods came dovvn '''''Incognito'''''; / To ſee vvho vvere their Friends or Foes, / And hovv our Actions fell or roſe.}}
• Result:
  • 1703, Mat[thew] Prior, “The Ladle”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson , published 1709, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 125:

    The Scepticks think 'tvvas long ago, / Since Gods came dovvn Incognito; / To ſee vvho vvere their Friends or Foes, / And hovv our Actions fell or roſe.

1718 version

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Prior Poems|year=1718|poem=To Mr. Howard|page=70|stanza=I|passage=Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou '''dravv''' Beauty, and not feel it's Povv'r?}}
• Result:
  • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “To Mr. Howard: An Ode”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson , and John Barber , →OCLC, stanza I, page 70:

    Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou dravv Beauty, and not feel it's Povv'r?

• {{RQ:Prior Alma}}
• {{RQ:Prior Solomon}} – to quote from the poems Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind and Solomon on the Vanity of the World published in the 1718 edition