Talk:A New Song of New Similies

source for and quality of text "A New Song of New Similies"

Just added the poem "A New Song of New Similies" (or should I use italics?) by John Gay. The source is this:

The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8 (Google eBook) aka

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain. Volume the Eighth. [1795],

available here (it's on p. 322).

I carefully proofread the text and am rather certain it's accurate down to the punctuation marks. Problem is, I don't know how to properly cite and format the above mentioned source. I tried to read through the help section, but, well, I didn't really feel helped at all...

I would've liked to do something like this (which, by the way, is incorrectly using a hyphen instead of a dash, but I wasn't sure of the implications of editing it, so I abstained), but that turned out to be too complex a task for me.

Further, since what I used as a reference would also be a good source for a great many other poems, that tome probably is deserving of a dedicated entry like this (but there, I would be in over my head even deeper, as, among other things, I don't even get where – here? on Wikimedia? – you're supposed to upload what).

– ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 01:11, 3 April 2012 (UTC)