This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Samuel Purchas's work A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects (1st edition, 1657). 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:
|part=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd part of the work (from page 255 onwards), specify |part=2
.|1=
or |chapter=
– the name of the chapter quoted from. 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 |
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*Angier | Upon the Authors Elaborate Treatise of Bees (by John Angier) |
*Epistle Dedicatory | To the Right Honourable, Truly Noble, and Religious Lord, Robert Earle of Warwick, Baron of Leez, &c. |
Fisher | To the Learned Author of This Bee-like Laborious Treatise (by Jo. Fisher) |
*G. T. | In Melissologiam a viro omnifariam docto Dominio Purchaso Elogium (by G. T.) |
*Loane | Upon the Authors Treatise of Bees (by Jo. Loane) |
*Norrice | To the Reader upon the Philo-logical and Theo-sophical Treatise of Bees (by Ja. Norrice) |
Norricius | Ad venerabilem Apiarium Authorem, Mr. Sam. Purchas Ministrum, de Poly-historico suo Mellificio; nec non lectorem candidum, carmen Anagrammaticum (by Ja. Norricus, i.e., Ja. Norrice) |
*N. T. | To the Author upon His Physio-theological History of Bees (by N. T.) |
Rogers | Ad doctum Authorem, in Mellifluam ipsius de Apibus historiam carmen, ἐγκωμιαςικὸν (by Guil. Rogers, i.e., William Rogers) |
T. P. | Upon the Authors Learned and Elaborate Treatise of Bees in Both Parts of It, an Encomiastick (by T. P.) |
|2=
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/b30323034/page/n12/mode/1up
, specify |page=12
.|section=
– if quoting from the 2nd part, the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|2=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
|pages=10–11
.|pageref=
to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|3=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– a passage to be quoted from the work.|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.{{RQ:Purchas Flying-Insects|chapter=The Excellency of Bees|page=1|passage='''Bees''' are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: {{...}}}}
; or{{RQ:Purchas Flying-Insects|The Excellency of Bees|1|'''Bees''' are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: {{...}}}}
{{RQ:Purchas Flying-Insects|part=2|section=II|page=258|passage=Let us not be too curious in prying into Gods arke, leaſt vve ſmart like the flie fluttering about the candle, for God is a conſuming fire to thoſe that vvill be ſporting themſelves in the '''quirks''' of their vvit about his ſacred myſteries.}}
{{RQ:Purchas Flying-Insects|chapter=Of the Generation of Bees|pages=47–48|pageref=47|passage=An '''egg''' properly is that, out of a part vvhereof a living creature is produced, and the reſidue is meat for it, improperly that is an '''egg''' out of the vvhole vvhereof, a living creature is bred, as the '''eggs''' of Spiders, Ants, Flies.}}
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