Template:RQ:Dryden Evening's Love
1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Dryden Evening's Love/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage edit
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Dryden's work An Evening's Love, or The Mock-Astrologer (1st edition, 1671). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters edit
The template takes the following parameters:
|chapter=– if quoting from a part of the work other than the play as indicated in the second column of the following table, use this parameter to specify the name of the part as indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result |
|---|---|
| Epilogue | Epilogue |
| Epistle Dedicatory | To His Grace William, Duke of Newcastle, […] |
| Preface | Preface |
| Prologue | Prologue |
- As the above chapters are not paginated, use
|1=or|page=to specify the "page number" that the Internet Archive has assigned to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://archive.org/details/eveningsloveormo00dryd/page/n8/mode/1up, specify|page=8.
|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page numbers 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).
- Separate the first and last page numbers of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) and scene number (only Act I is divided into two scenes) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|act=– mandatory in some cases: in most cases if the page number is specified, the template will determine the act number quoted from, as shown below. However, if page 30, 49, or 71 is quoted from, the act number must be manually specified in uppercase Roman numerals, like this:|act=II.
| Act I pages 1–12 |
Act II pages 13–30 |
Act III pages 30–49 |
Act IV pages 49–71 |
Act V pages 71–89 |
|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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:Dryden Evening's Love|page=53|passage=For ''I'' obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill '''Piquing''' at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the ''Heron'' and ''Jerfalcon'' do.}}(the template is able to determine the act number automatically); or{{RQ:Dryden Evening's Love|53|For ''I'' obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill '''Piquing''' at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the ''Heron'' and ''Jerfalcon'' do.}}
- Result:
- 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:
- For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.