Remember, remember! The fifth of November

[williepete]

The Fifth of November

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

Gunpowder Plot documents among millions of papers put online by National Archives - Telegraph

 

[williepete]

1775: In his general orders for the day, General George Washington condemns the celebration of Guy Fawkes Day among his troops as he struggled to win French-Canadian Catholics to the patriot cause. Washington deemed the festivities — which feature the burning of the pope and Fawkes in effigy to commemorate the foiled Gunpowder Plot — as “insulting their religion.”
Slideshows National Review Online

 

[Swagger]

Guy Fawkes: the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions. Going to be sending up a few fireworks and raising several glasses of deep red in his esteemed honour this evening.