Template:RQ:Dryden Amboyna

1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

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The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Dryden Amboyna/documentation. ^[edit]

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Dryden's work Amboyna (1st edition, 1673). 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 one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give this parameter the value indicated in the first column:

Parameter value	Result
Epilogue	Epilogue
Epistle Dedicatory	To the Right Honorable the Lord Clifford of Chudleigh
Prologue	Prologue to Amboyna

As the epistle dedicatory and prologue are unpaginated, use |1= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/amboynatragedyas00dryd/page/n8/mode/1up, specify |page=8. (The epilogue is also unpaginated, but the template can determine the URL.)

• |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).

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.

Page 65 is misnumbered as 59; if quoting this page, specify |page=65.

• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, it is unable to do so if page 10, 23, 35, or 51 is specified, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

Act I pages 1–10

Act II pages 10–23

Act III pages 23–35

Act IV pages 35–51

Act V pages 51–65

• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dryden Amboyna|page=31|passage=VVho ever ſavv a noble ſight, / That never vievv'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up vvith your Fights, and your '''Nettings''' prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, vvith a luſty bold ſpright, / Novv each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, {{...}}}} (the template is able to determine the act number automatically); or
  • {{RQ:Dryden Amboyna|31|VVho ever ſavv a noble ſight, / That never vievv'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up vvith your Fights, and your '''Nettings''' prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, vvith a luſty bold ſpright, / Novv each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:

    VVho ever ſavv a noble ſight, / That never vievv'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up vvith your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, vvith a luſty bold ſpright, / Novv each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]