Template:RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Philip Sidney's work An Apology for Poetry, also published under the title The Defence of Poesie (1st edition, 1595). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the works at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• The Defence of Poesie (1st edition, 1595).
• An Apologie for Poetrie (1868 republication of the 1st edition, 1595).

The template takes the following parameters:

1st edition (1595) entitled The Defence of Poesie

• |version= – mandatory: if quoting from the 1st edition entitled A Defence of Poesie, specify |version=Defence. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1868 republication of the 1st edition entitled An Apologie for Poetrie.
• |1= or |page= – mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify 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=l1ZpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11, specify |page=11. 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 quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signature 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 displays the URL of the online version of the work as a superscript link after the title of the work.

1868 republication entitled An Apologie for Poetrie

• |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from as shown in the following table:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

Both editions

• |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.

1st edition (1595) entitled A Defence of Poesie

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie|version=Defence|page=75|passage=Now for ſimilitudes in certain Printed diſcourſes, I thinke all Herberiſts, all ſtories of beaſts, foules, and fiſhes, are rifled vp, that they may come in multitudes to vvait vpon any of our conceits, which certainly is as abſurd a '''ſurfet''' to the eares as is poſsible.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie|version=Defence|75|Now for ſimilitudes in certain Printed diſcourſes, I thinke all Herberiſts, all ſtories of beaſts, foules, and fiſhes, are rifled vp, that they may come in multitudes to vvait vpon any of our conceits, which certainly is as abſurd a '''ſurfet''' to the eares as is poſsible.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], The Defence of Poesie‎, London: [Thomas Creede] for VVilliam Ponsonby, published 1595, →OCLC, →OCLC:

    Now for ſimilitudes in certain Printed diſcourſes, I thinke all Herberiſts, all ſtories of beaſts, foules, and fiſhes, are rifled vp, that they may come in multitudes to vvait vpon any of our conceits, which certainly is as abſurd a ſurfet to the eares as is poſsible.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie|version=Defence|sig=E2|verso=1|page=40|passage=VVher the ''Philoſophers'' as they think ſcorne to delight, ſo muſt they be content little to mooue; ſauing '''vvrangling''' vvhether ''Virtue'' be the chiefe or the onely good; {{...}}}} (signature specified)
• Result:
  • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], The Defence of Poesie, London: [Thomas Creede] for VVilliam Ponsonby, published 1595, →OCLC, signature E2, verso, →OCLC:

    VVher the Philoſophers as they think ſcorne to delight, ſo muſt they be content little to mooue; ſauing vvrangling vvhether Virtue be the chiefe or the onely good; […]

1868 edition

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie|page=29|passage=This purifing of wit, this enritching of memory, enabling of iudgment, and enlarging of conceyt, which commonly we call learning, {{...}} the final end is, to lead and draw vs to as high a perfection, as our degenerate ſoules made worſe by their '''clayey''' lodgings, can be capable of.}}
• Result:
  • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. , London: for Henry Olney, , published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: , 1 April 1868, →OCLC, page 29:

    This purifing of wit, this enritching of memory, enabling of iudgment, and enlarging of conceyt, which commonly we call learning, […] the final end is, to lead and draw vs to as high a perfection, as our degenerate ſoules made worſe by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of.