Talk:Gunpowder Plot Sermon

A Bilingual Preacher?

Are you kidding me? Did he speak in both english and latin during the sermon, or did someone get lazy in translation? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.62.251 (talk) 15:36, 12 October 2011

This sermon was given in 1606, back then Latin would have been well known by the educated classes (generally those who could read & were better off financially) & certainly by the Church. It wouldn't have been unusual to use latin in a sermon, especially as as far as I can see the latin being used is just small chunks that I expect would have been known to the audience anyway (the same way we know the meaning of bits of latin like carpe diem; veni, vidi vici, etc). Bear in mind that only about 77 years before this the whole sermon would have been conducted in Latin. I don't speak Latin myself but from a bit of the text it looks like he's using the English to expand on & explain the Latin - Now then (to take our rule from the former verse) Factum Domini facit diem Domini. It is Gods deed, that maketh it God's day; and, the greater the Deed, the more God's day. There must be first, Factum est, some doing: and secondly, it must be a Domino, He the doere: and thirdly, that somewhat must be somewhat marvellous. AllanHainey 12:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Different matter

Does anyone know of the author or date of the poem; "Please to remember the fifth of November"? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.145.169.228 (talk) 16 August 2006

For the record, it is described as "traditional" here - q:Guy_Fawkes -- Beardo (talk) 19:28, 5 March 2024 (UTC)