Template:RQ:John Gay What D'Ye Call It/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Gay's work The What D'Ye Call It (1st edition, 1715). 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 |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 or II) 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 What D'Ye Call It|scene=ix|page=40|passage=So comes a Reck’ning when the '''Banquet'''’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.}}; or
  • {{RQ:John Gay What D'Ye Call It|ix|40|So comes a Reck’ning when the '''Banquet'''’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.}}
• Result:
  • [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ix, page 40:

    So comes a Reck’ning when the Banquet’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:John Gay What D'Ye Call It|scene=ix|pages=38–39|pageref=39|passage=What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall '''marry''' the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall.}}
• Result:
  • [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ix, pages 38–39:

    What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall marry the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall.