Please explane?

after watching 'V for vedeta i thought i should read up about guy fawkes and i found this poem in wiki pedia please explane it to me line by line and explane the old words thanks in advance. :)





"Remember, remember, the 5th of November


The Gunpowder Treason and plot;


I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason


Should ever be forgot.


Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,


'Twas his intent.


To blow up the King and the Parliament.


Three score barrels of powder below.


Poor old England to overthrow.


By God's providence he was catch'd,


With a dark lantern and burning match


Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring


Holloa boys, Holloa boys, God save the King!


Hip hip Hoorah!


Hip hip Hoorah!


A penny loaf to feed ol'Pope,


A farthing cheese to choke him.


A pint of beer to rinse it down,


A ****** of sticks to burn him.


Burn him in a tub of tar,'


Burn him like a blazing star.


Burn his body from his head,


Then we'll say: ol'Pope is dead.





from wikipedia

Please explane?
Guy Fawkes, as you probably read, was an old terrorist who conspired to load gunpowder in the Parliament building on November 5 (which is now Guy Fawkes Day). As England is too old to remember when the country was founded, they celebrate Guy Fawkes Day as if it were an independence day.





This is a schoolyard rhyme to help remember the treason of Guy. At the time, Parliament was still a democratic institution, so Guy wasn't anything like V.





"Three score barrels of powder" is 60 barrels. "Holloa" (either "Hello" or "Holler") and "Hip hip hurrah" are just exclamations. A penny loaf, a farthing (5 cents) cheese, and a pint of beer are his last meals. A f-got is an old term for a bundle of sticks for lighting a fire with. It generally was used when burning people at the stake, although you can certainly call fireplace wood a f-got. (Yes, it is spelled the same as the modern derogatory term. Incidentally, in the early 20th century , f-g meant a cigarette.)





So they want to burn Fawkes at the stake as punishment. They call him "Pope" because Fawkes was part of a Roman Catholic group that disagreed with the English Anglicans, which were trying to be independent from Rome. (Instead of being burned at the stake, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, which was the punishment for treason.)





A paraphrase: "Remember November 5th, and the Gunpowder Plot. I think that this treason should never be forgotten. Guy Fawkes intended to blow up King James I and the members of Parliament. He had gotten sixty barrels of gunpowder to overthrow the English government. By God's grace, he was captured in the dark. Let us celebrate and cheer! Give him a cheap last meal for him to choke on, while we burn him at the stake. After he burns, we can say that the Catholics do not control England any more."
Reply:Remember Guy Fawkes’ plot to blow up Parliament with gunpowder on November 5!





He intended to blow up the king and Parliament, using sixty (three times twenty) barrels of gunpower in a cellar, to overthrow the government of England.





With God’s help, he was caught with a dark lantern (a kind of pre-electricity flashlight) and a lighted match.





Yay!





Down with the Pope! Give him one last meal, then kill him!





(It’s funny that Yahoo! Answers put asterisks in here. A “f@gg0t” of sticks is nothing more than a bundle of sticks. There’s nothing profame about it.)





If there are “old words” other than “score,” “dark lantern,” and “f@gg0t” that you’d like explained, please edit your question.
Reply:Yup. See first Answer. That about sums it up.