shakespearean: Remember, remember, The fifth of November ~ ‘Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t’. Macbeth (I, v) ~ To commemorate the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, King James I had a medal created picturing a serpent hiding amongst flowers. For more, see: Henry Neill Paul. The royal play of Macbeth: when, why, and how it was written by Shakespeare. New York: Octagon Books, 1971. ~ ‘Obverse, or reverse, of a medal struck, by order of the Dutch senate, to commemorate the double event of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and the expulsion of the Jesuits from Holland. Drawn from a copy of the medal in pewter, by Paul Woodroffe. The design here exhibited is thus described in Hawkins and Franks Medallic Illustrations: The name of Jehovah, in Hebrew, radiate, within a crown of thorns. Legend, chronogrammatic, NON DORMlTASTl ANTlSTES lACOBl ” [which gives the date 1605]. On its other face the medal bears a snake gliding amid roses and lilies [symbolizing Jesuit intrigues in England and France], with the legend Detects qui latuit. S.C. [Senatus Consulto].’ From: John Gerard. What was the Gunpowder Plot?: The traditional story tested by original evidence. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1897. Appendix A. ~ Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford died in 1604. The Gunpowder Plot happened in 1605.

shakespearean:

Remember, remember,

The fifth of November

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‘Look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t’.

Macbeth (I, v)

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To commemorate the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, King James I had a medal created picturing a serpent hiding amongst flowers.

For more, see: Henry Neill Paul. The royal play of Macbeth: when, why, and how it was written by Shakespeare. New York: Octagon Books, 1971.

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‘Obverse, or reverse, of a medal struck, by order of the Dutch senate, to commemorate the double event of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and the expulsion of the Jesuits from Holland. Drawn from a copy of the medal in pewter, by Paul Woodroffe. The design here exhibited is thus described in Hawkins and Franks Medallic Illustrations: The name of Jehovah, in Hebrew, radiate, within a crown of thorns. Legend, chronogrammatic, NON DORMlTASTl ANTlSTES lACOBl ” [which gives the date 1605]. On its other face the medal bears a snake gliding amid roses and lilies [symbolizing Jesuit intrigues in England and France], with the legend Detects qui latuit. S.C. [Senatus Consulto].’

From: John Gerard. What was the Gunpowder Plot?: The traditional story tested by original evidence. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1897. Appendix A.

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Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford died in 1604. The Gunpowder Plot happened in 1605.

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