Template:RQ:Spenser Complaints/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Edmund Spenser's Complaints (1st edition, 1591). 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 |poem=, or |chapter= – the name of the "chapter" or poem quoted from, as indicated in the table below. If some other name is specified, the template will display that name.

Parameter value	Result	Link
Time	The Ruines of Time	unnumbered page
Teares	The Teares of the Muses	unnumbered page
Virgil	Virgils Gnat	unnumbered page
Prosopopoia	Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.	unnumbered page
Rome	Ruines of Rome: By Bellay	unnumbered page
Muiopotmos	Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie	unnumbered page
Visions	Visions of the Worlds Vanitie	unnumbered page
Bellay	The Visions of Bellay	unnumbered page
Petrarch	The Visions of Petrarch	unnumbered page

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – as the work is unpaginated, |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. 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 signatures, for example, "signature B, verso – B2, recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the chapter name.
• |2= or |page= – mandatory in some cases: use |2= or |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 https://archive.org/details/complaintscontai00spen/page/27/mode/1up, specify |page=27. The parameter must be used to have the template link to the online version of the work.
• |part= – if the poem is divided into parts, use this parameter to specify the part number in Arabic numerals.
• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |4=, |t=, or |translation= – a translation of the passage quoted into contemporary English.
• |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:Spenser Complaints|poem=Time|page=27|part=6|passage=[W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, vvhich loudly to me called, / That vvith ſuddein '''ſhrill''' I vvas appalled.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Spenser Complaints|Time|27|part=6|[W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, vvhich loudly to me called, / That vvith ſuddein '''ſhrill''' I vvas appalled.}}
• Result:
  • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, part 6:

    [W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, vvhich loudly to me called, / That vvith ſuddein ſhrill I vvas appalled.

Signature specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Spenser Complaints|poem=Bellay|sig=Y3|page=172|part=5|passage=Then vvas the faire ''Dodonian'' tree far ſeene, / Vpon ſeauen hills to ſpread his gladſome '''gleame''', / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the ''Auſonian'' ſtreame: {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1591, Joachim du Bellay, “The Visions of Bellay”, in Ed[mund] Sp[enser], transl., Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, part 5, signature Y3, recto:

    Then vvas the faire Dodonian tree far ſeene, / Vpon ſeauen hills to ſpread his gladſome gleame, / And conquerours bedecked vvith his greene, / Along the bancks of the Auſonian ſtreame: […]