Template:RQ:Topsell Serpents/documentation

Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote 's work ''The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures'' (1st edition, 1608). 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 chapter – mandatory in some cases: the name of the chapter quoted from. If quoting from one of the following chapters not from the main part of the work indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:


 * As the above chapters are unpaginated, 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, specify 1.


 * 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: 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.


 * 3, text, or passage – the passage to be quoted.
 * footer – a comment on the passage quoted.
 * brackets – use 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:
 * ; or
 * Result:
 * Result: