Template:RQ:Beaumont Knight/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Francis Beaumont's work The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1st edition, 1613). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the epistle dedicatory or prologue, specify |chapter=Epistle Dedicatory or |chapter=Prologue respectively.
• |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/knightofburningp00beau_2/page/n8/mode/1up, specify |page=8. 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 page number is specified the template can determine the act number of the play. However, the template is unable to do this if page 24 or 55 is quoted from, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

Act I IA pages 11–24

Act II IA pages 24–38

Act III IA pages 39–55

Act IV IA pages 55–67

Act V IA pages 68–77

• |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 A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4]: see the example below.
  • 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 links the URL of the online version of the work to the epistle dedicatory or 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.

Examples

Signature specified

• • {{RQ:Beaumont Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery hand and euery head, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Beaumont Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|63|Come you vvhoſe loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery hand and euery head, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act IV, signature [H4], verso:

    Come you vvhoſe loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and vvring / Euery hand and euery head, […]

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Beaumont Knight|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery hand and euery head, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act IV:

    Come you vvhoſe loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and vvring / Euery hand and euery head, […]

See also

• {{RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies}} – to quote the version of the work published in the 2nd folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies (1679)