Template:RQ:Drayton Battle of Agincourt

1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “(please specify the page)”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. [], London: [] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, [], published 1631, →OCLC:

Usage edit

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Michael Drayton's work The Battaile of Agincourt (1631); the 1st edition (London: [] [Augustine Matthews] for VVilliam Lee, [], 1627; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

Parameters edit

The template takes the following parameters:

  • |chapter= – 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
Dedication [Dedication]
Jonson The Vision of Ben. Iohnson, on the Muses of His Friend M. Draiton (by Ben Jonson)
Reynolds To My VVorthy Friend Mr. Michael Drayton upon His Poems (by John Reynolds)
Vaughan Upon the Battaile of Agincourt, VVritten by His Deare Friend Michael Drayton Esquire (by John Vaughan)
As the above chapters are not paginated, use |1= or |page= 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=JkrpwMV8ytEC&pg=PP9, specify |page=9.
  • |elegy= – if quoting from one of the elegies, the name of the elegy.
  • |stanza= – the stanza number quoted from in Arabic 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=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 the poem quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
The Battaile of Agincourt
Poem First page number
The Battaile of Agin Court page 1
The Miseries of Queene Margarite page 93
Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie. page 168
The Quest of Cynthia page 194
The Shepheards Sirena page 204
The Moone-calfe page 218
Elegies upon Sundry Occasions page 264
  • |2=, |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.

Examples edit

  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Drayton Battle of Agincourt|page=12|passage=Cannons vpon their Carriage mounted are, / VVhole Battery ''Fraunce'' muſt feele vpon her VValls, / The '''Engineer''' prouiding the Petar, / To breake the ſtrong Percullice, and the Balls / Of VVild fire deuis'd to throvv from farre, / To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls: {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Drayton Battle of Agincourt|12|Cannons vpon their Carriage mounted are, / VVhole Battery ''Fraunce'' muſt feele vpon her VValls, / The '''Engineer''' prouiding the Petar, / To breake the ſtrong Percullice, and the Balls / Of VVild fire deuis'd to throvv from farre, / To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls: {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Battaile of Agin Court”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. [], London: [] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, [], published 1631, →OCLC, page 12:
      Cannons vpon their Carriage mounted are, / VVhole Battery Fraunce muſt feele vpon her VValls, / The Engineer prouiding the Petar, / To breake the ſtrong Percullice, and the Balls / Of VVild fire deuis'd to throvv from farre, / To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls: []

See also edit

The following templates can be also used to quote poems in this work: