Template:RQ:Milton Collected Works

1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, pages 218–219:
Ireland [] was once the conqueſt of one ſingle Earl with his private forces, and the ſmall aſſiſtance of a petty Kerniſh Prince,

Usage edit

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from a collected edition of John Milton's prose works entitled A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton (1698). First editions of many of these are difficult to find; this is an early reprint from the Internet Archive which uses continuous pagination across the two volumes (specifying the page number will automatically choose the correct volume).

There is also a separately numbered Volume III, but it only includes works in Latin.

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Milton Of Reformation}}), use it instead of this template.

Parameters edit

The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1= or |work=mandatory: the work reprinted. If the parameter is given the value indicated in the first column of the following table, the template will display what is indicated in the second column. If you do not specify one of these, please also use |year= to specify the year in which the work was originally published. If |year= is omitted, the template defaults to "a. 1675", the year after Milton's death.
Milton's Collected Works
Parameter value Result First page number
Animadversions
or Anim
Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus (1641) page 139
Apology for Smectymnuus
or Smectymnuus or Smec
An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642) page 169
Colasterion Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameless Answer against the Doctrin and Disciplin of Divorce. [] (4 March 1645 (Julian calendar)) page 409
A Defence of the People of England A Defence of the People of England, in Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King (1692) page 557
Free Commonwealth The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation (February 1660) page 783
Hirelings Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. [] (1659) page 757
Life The Life of John Milton (by John Toland; 13 September 1698 (Gregorian calendar)) page 5
Of Prelatical Episcopacy Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; [] (June or July 1641) page 239
Of Reformation Of Reformation in England, and the Causes that hitherto have Hindred It (May 1641) page 249
Of True Religion Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. [] (1673) page 807
The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty
or Reason
The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty (1642) page 201
Tetrachordon Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Four Chief Places in Scripture which Treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage. [] (4 March 1645 (Julian calendar)) page 327.
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
or Tenure
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: [] (1649) page 529
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (February 1659) page 741
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  • |chapter= – if the work is divided into chapters, the chapter number in uppercase Roman numerals, or the name of the chapter as the case may be.
  • |2= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) of the work. If using |pages= to quote 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).
This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

Note the following pagination issues:

  • Volume I:
    • "The Life of John Milton" is separately paginated from the rest of the work; the page number restarts from 1 after that chapter.
    • There is one unnumbered page after each of page 271, 272, 273, and 441. Specify these pages as |page=271A, |page=272A, |page=273A, and |page=441A respectively.
  • Volume II:
    • After page 528, page numbers 525–528 are used again. Specify these pages as |page=525A to |page=528A.
    • After page 568, page numbers 545–568 are used again. Specify these pages as |page=545A to |page=568A.
  • |3=, |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.

Examples edit

  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Milton Collected Works|work=Smectymnuus|page=177|passage=[W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallovv Judgement, and vvithall an ungentle, and '''ſvvainiſh''' breſt.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Milton Collected Works|Smectymnuus|177|[W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallovv Judgement, and vvithall an ungentle, and '''ſvvainiſh''' breſt.}}
  • Result:
    • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 177:
      [W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallovv Judgement, and vvithall an ungentle, and ſvvainiſh breſt.