Template:RQ:Englands Helicon/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the work Englands Helicon (1st edition, 1600). It 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:
|1=
,|chapter=
, or|poem=
– mandatory: the name of the "chapter" or poem quoted from.|2=
or|url=
– mandatory in some cases: as the work is not paginated, the URL of the webpage of the online version of the work to link to must be manually specified, like this:|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP15
. This parameter must be specified for the template to link to the work.|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|4=
,|t=
, or|translation=
– a translation of the passage into contemporary English.|footer=
– a comment about the passage quoted, preferably formatted using the{{small}}
template.|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:Englands Helicon|poem=The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Loue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP176|passage=Rob the Spheare of lines vnited, / Make a ſuddaine voide in nature: / Force the day to be '''benighted''', / Reaue the cauſe of time and creature.}}
; or{{RQ:Englands Helicon|The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Loue|https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP176|Rob the Spheare of lines vnited, / Make a ſuddaine voide in nature: / Force the day to be '''benighted''', / Reaue the cauſe of time and creature.}}
- Result:
- 1600, “The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Loue”, in Englands Helicon, London: Printed by I. R[oberts] for Iohn Flasket, […], →OCLC:
- Rob the Spheare of lines vnited, / Make a ſuddaine voide in nature: / Force the day to be benighted, / Reaue the cauſe of time and creature.