How do I take a partial quotation that ends with a question mark (but not within my quote)?
I am in the process of writing a paper on Shakespeare's Macbeth, and I want to take a quotation from the following passage:
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life
And live a coward in thine on esteem,
Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would"
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
However I only want to take the first three lines of the passage:
It is written, "Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life / And live a coward in thine on esteem, / Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would"...
How should I punctuate the end (...)?
You could punctuate thus:
'Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life / And live in a coward in thine on esteem, / Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would" . . . ?'
It is then obvious that you are quoting a question, but not including the entire sentence.