The Fifth of November (c.

1870)

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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!

1. Match the expressions in bold with their meanings below:

To block up or obstruct by filling or clogging
A large cylindrical container, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a
flat top and bottom of equal diameter.
Brit. very:
an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of
gasoline"
Being three times twenty; sixty.
To plan with cleverness or ingenuity; devise
2. Find 3 examples of passive voice, 2 examples of inversion (Obj V), and 1 conditional
sentence.

3. Who do the pronouns him and they refer to on line 13?

4. Look up the words sake, stake and stick in the dictionary. Is that enough to understand the
phrase? Why?