Than these November skies Is no sky lovelier. The clouds are deep; Into their grey the subtle spies Of colour creep, Changing their high austerity to delight, Till ev'n the leaden interfolds are bright.

-Freeman,John
  'November Skies'.

On the 5th November we began our Parliament, to which the King should have come in person but refrained, through a practice but that morning discovered. The plot was to have blown up the King†at oneinstanttohaveruinedthewhole estateand kingdom of England.

-Hoby, Sir Edward
  Letter to the British  Ambassador to Brussels, describing the Gunpowder Plot,19 Nov.

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto1, introduction.

Next was November, he full gross and fat, As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; For, he had been a fatting hogs of late.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 7, stanza 40.