Template:RQ:Shirley Bird in a Cage

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from James Shirley's work The Bird in a Cage. A Comedie. (1st edition, 1633). 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:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the epistle dedicatory to William Prynne, specify |chapter=Epistle Dedicatorie.
• |1= or |page=} – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive ("IA") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/birdincagecomedi00shir/page/n12/mode/1up, specify |page=12. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the IA page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, the template is unable to do so if page 23 or 53 is quoted from, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

• |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 B3 and the next one is C, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[B4].
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures B, verso – B2, 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 act number.
• |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.

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Shirley Bird in a Cage|act=I|sig=C2|verso=1|page=23|passage=Like errand Knights, our valiant vvits muſt '''vvraſtle''' / To free our Ladyes from the inchanted Caſtle.}} (in this case, the act number must be specified); or
  • {{RQ:Shirley Bird in a Cage|act=I|sig=C2|verso=1|23|Like errand Knights, our valiant vvits muſt '''vvraſtle''' / To free our Ladyes from the inchanted Caſtle.}}
• Result:
  • 1633, , The Bird in a Cage. A Comedie. , London: B Alsop, and T Fawcet, for William Cooke , →OCLC, Act I, signature C2, verso:

    Like errand Knights, our valiant vvits muſt vvraſtle / To free our Ladyes from the inchanted Caſtle.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Shirley Bird in a Cage|act=I|page=23|passage=Like errand Knights, our valiant vvits muſt '''vvraſtle''' / To free our Ladyes from the inchanted Caſtle.}}
• Result:
  • 1633, , The Bird in a Cage. A Comedie. , London: B Alsop, and T Fawcet, for William Cooke , →OCLC, Act I:

    Like errand Knights, our valiant vvits muſt vvraſtle / To free our Ladyes from the inchanted Caſtle.