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Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Walter Scott's work The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1st edition, 1805). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|stanza=
– the stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
|1=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory: 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=110–111
.
- 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 the canto (1st–5th) or other part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– a passage to be quoted from the work.
|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
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel|stanza=XXIV|page=115|passage=His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border '''slogan''' rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"}}
; or
{{RQ:Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel|stanza=XXIV|115|His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border '''slogan''' rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"}}
- Result:
1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , and A Constable and Co., , →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 115:His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border slogan rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"
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