Template:RQ:Milton Samson/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Milton's work Samson Agonistes which was published in Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes (1st edition, 1671). 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:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be quoted from. When 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 specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) of the work quoted. Separate the first and last numbers of the range with an en dash.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about 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:Milton Samson|page=25|lines=301–307|passage=Yet more there be vvho doubt his vvays not juſt, / As to his edicts, found contradicting, / Then give the [[reins|rains]] to vvandring thought, / Regardleſs of his glories diminution; / Till by their ovvn perplexities involv'd / They '''ravel''' more, ſtill less reſolv'd, / But never find ſelf-ſatisfying ſolution.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Milton Samson|25|lines=301–307|Yet more there be vvho doubt his vvays not juſt, / As to his edicts, found contradicting, / Then give the [[reins|rains]] to vvandring thought, / Regardleſs of his glories diminution; / Till by their ovvn perplexities involv'd / They '''ravel''' more, ſtill less reſolv'd, / But never find ſelf-ſatisfying ſolution.}}
• Result:
  • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 25, lines 301–307:

    Yet more there be vvho doubt his vvays not juſt, / As to his edicts, found contradicting, / Then give the rains to vvandring thought, / Regardleſs of his glories diminution; / Till by their ovvn perplexities involv'd / They ravel more, ſtill less reſolv'd, / But never find ſelf-ſatisfying ſolution.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Milton Samson|pages=30–31|pageref=30|lines=408–412|passage=I yielded, and unlock'd her all my heart, / VVho vvith a grain of manhood vvell reſolv'd / Might eaſily have ſhook off all her ſnares: / But foul effeminacy held me '''yok't''' / Her Bond-ſlave; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 30–31, lines 408–412:

    I yielded, and unlock'd her all my heart, / VVho vvith a grain of manhood vvell reſolv'd / Might eaſily have ſhook off all her ſnares: / But foul effeminacy held me yok't / Her Bond-ſlave; […]

Technical information

This template relies on {{RQ:Milton Paradise Regained}}.