Template:RQ:John Gay Polly

1729 April, [John] Gay, Polly: An Opera. Being the Second Part of The Beggar’s Opera, London: […] T. Thomson [actually by James Watson and Samuel Aris for Thomas Astley], […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

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

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Gay's work Polly: An Opera. Being the Second Part of The Beggar's Opera (pirated edition, 1729); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Printed for the author, 1729; →OCLC) is not currently available online. It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books. (Archived at the Internet Archive.)

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: 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 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 determine the act number (I–III) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |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:John Gay Polly|scene=i|page=4|passage=But in every Vein / Life '''quickens''' again / On the Boſom of ''May''.}}; or
  • {{RQ:John Gay Polly|i|4|But in every Vein / Life '''quickens''' again / On the Boſom of ''May''.}}
• Result:
  • 1729 April, [John] Gay, Polly: An Opera. Being the Second Part of The Beggar’s Opera, London: […] T. Thomson [actually by James Watson and Samuel Aris for Thomas Astley], […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

    But in every Vein / Life quickens again / On the Boſom of May.