Template:RQ:Bacon Essayes/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Francis Bacon's work Essayes (1st edition, 1598 reprint; and 3rd edition, 1625 and 1632); the 1st edition (London: […] [John Windet] for Humfrey Hooper, […], 1597; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1598 reprint) – contains only ten essays.
• 3rd edition – contains 58 essays:
  • 1625 (archived at the Internet Archive).
  • 1632 reprint (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

1st edition (1598 reprint)

• |year= – mandatory: if quoting from this edition, specify |year=1598. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 3rd edition (1625).
• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
  • If quoting from the epistle dedicatory, specify |chapter=Epistle Dedicatory. As this chapter is unpaginated, use |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 <!--URL to be inserted-->, specify |page=.
  • If quoting from the essay "Of the Colours of Good and Evill", specify |chapter=Colours.
• |2= or |folio=, and |verso= – mandatory in some cases: this edition is numbered by folios rather than page numbers. The folio number is indicated on the top right corner of each recto (right-hand) page. Use |folio= to indicate the folio number, and 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 quoting a range of folios, for example, "folios 10, verso – 11, recto", note the following:
  • Use |folio= and |verso= to specify the folio at the start of the range, and |folioend= and |versoend= (if required) to specify the folio at the end of the range.
  • In addition, use |folioref= and |versoref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears). (If quoting a recto page, omit |versoend= and |versoref=.)

These parameters must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

The first page of the first essay "Studies" has no folio number. To quote from this page, specify |folio=0 and |verso=1 (or |verso=yes).

3rd edition (1625, and 1632 reprint)

• |year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1632 reprint, specify |year=1632. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 3rd edition (1625).
• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
  • If quoting from the epistle dedicatory, specify |chapter=Epistle Dedicatorie. As this chapter is unpaginated, use |2= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=WVhpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3, specify |page=3.
  • If quoting from the essay "Of the Colours of Good and Evill" in the 1632 reprint, specify |chapter=Colours. As this essay is unpaginated, use |2= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=FpJLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT3, specify |page=3.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting 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 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 link to the online version of the work.

Both editions

• |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

1st edition (1598 reprint)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|year=1598|chapter=Of Studies|folio=0|verso=1|passage=Their [studies'] chiefe vſe for paſtime is in '''priuateneſſe''' and retyring: {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|year=1598|Of Studies|0|verso=1|Their [studies'] chiefe vſe for paſtime is in '''priuateneſſe''' and retyring: {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1598, Fran[cis] Bacon, “Of Studies”, in Essaies. […], London: […] Iohn VVindet for Humfrey Hooper […], →OCLC, folio [0], verso:

    Their [studies'] chiefe vſe for paſtime is in priuateneſſe and retyring: […]

3rd edition (1625)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|chapter=Of Ambition. XXXVI.|page=221|passage=As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] dovvne, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done vvith ſafety ſuddainly, the onely VVay is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and '''Diſgraces''', vvhereby they may not knovv, vvhat to expect; And be, as it vvere, in a VVood.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|Of Ambition. XXXVI.|221|As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] dovvne, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done vvith ſafety ſuddainly, the onely VVay is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and '''Diſgraces''', vvhereby they may not knovv, vvhat to expect; And be, as it vvere, in a VVood.}}
• Result:
  • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Ambition. XXXVI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 221:

    As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] dovvne, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done vvith ſafety ſuddainly, the onely VVay is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, vvhereby they may not knovv, vvhat to expect; And be, as it vvere, in a VVood.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|chapter=Of Youth and Age. XLII.|pages=247–248|pageref=247|passage=Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Peturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it vvas vvith ''[[w:Julius Caesar|Iulius Cæſar]]'', and ''[[w:Septimius Severus|Septimius Seuerus]]''. {{...}} And yet he [Septimus Severus] vvas the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all the '''Liſt'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age. XLII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 247–248:

    Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Peturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it vvas vvith Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus. […] And yet he [Septimus Severus] vvas the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all the Liſt.

1632 reprint

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Bacon Essayes|year=1632|chapter=Colours|page=10|passage=[M]en are accuſtomed after themſelues & their ovvne faſhion, to incline vnto them vvhich are ſofteſt, and are leaſt in their vvay, in deſpight and derogation of them, that hold them hardeſt to it. So that this colour of '''meliority''' and preheminence is of a ſigne of eneruation and vveakneſſe.}}
• Result:
  • 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:

    [M]en are accuſtomed after themſelues & their ovvne faſhion, to incline vnto them vvhich are ſofteſt, and are leaſt in their vvay, in deſpight and derogation of them, that hold them hardeſt to it. So that this colour of meliority and preheminence is of a ſigne of eneruation and vveakneſſe.

See also

• {{RQ:Bacon Colours of Good and Evil}} – to quote the essay Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment in this work.