NOVEMBER: OR, Signal Days Observed in that Month In Relation to the CROWN and ROYAL FAMILY.  
Written by the most Ingenious and Learned Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT then Student of Christ-Church in Oxon, and Proctor of the University.  
In the SAVOY, Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at the Sign of the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1671.   

NOVEMBER, OR, SIGNAL DAYS Observed in that MONTH in relation to the CROWN and ROYAL FAMILY.  

1.  
THou Sun that show'st the Day, look down and see  
A Month more shining by Events than thee;  
Departed SAINTS and SOULS signed it before, 
First Day All-Saints; Second Day All-Souls.   
But now the Living sign it more:  
Persons and Actions met, all meant for Joy;  
But some build up, and some destroy:  
Bate Us that Ushering Curse (so Dear known)  
And then the Month is all our own:  
So at the First, Darkness was thrown about  
Th' Unshapen Earth, and Light was then struck out.   

2.  
Draw the first Curtain, 
Third Day Began the Long Parliament 1640. and Mahomet began his Reign Anno 622. and Cautionary Towns restored to the States 1616.  and the Scene is then  
A Triple State of Guiled and Trusted men;  
Men, in whose hands 'twas once to have given Us more  
Than our bold Fathers asked before:  
Who had they used their Prince's Grace, had got  
What no Arms could and Theirs will not:  
What more than Witchcraft did our Blessing curse,  
And made the Cure make Evils worse.  
'Tis the Third Day, throw in the Blackest Stone,  
Mark it for Cursed, and let it stand Alone.   

3.  
But, 
Fourth Day The Birth of the Princess Royal MARY (P of Aurange.) 1632. and of her Son the now Prince of Aurange 1650.  hold! speak gentler things; this Fourth was seen  
The softest Image of our Beauteous Queen:  
Bring me a Lamb, not used to elder Food,  
That hath as yet more Milk than Blood;  
That to the Honour of this early Bride  
(Like Thetis come to Peleus' side)  
Some tender thing may fall: though none can be  
So tender or so white as She:  
While we at home our little Turf debate,  
She spreads our Glory to another State.   

4.  
Next, 
Fifth Day, The Gun-powder-Plot 1605.  View a Treason of the work Intent,  
Had not our own done more than Strangers meant▪  
Religion is the Thing both sides pretend,  
But either to a different End;  
They Covenant out of Zeal to rear their own,  
These out of Zeal to pull all down:  
Bless Us from these, as them; but yet compare  
Those in the Vault, these in the Chair:  
Though the just lot of unsuccessful Sin  
Fix theirs without, you'll find worse Heads within.   

5.  
But, 
Twelfth and Thirteenth Day, Brainford Fight 1642.  hark! what Thunder's that, and who those men.  
Flying towards Heaven, but soon fall down again?  
Whose those black Corpse cast on the Guilty Shore?  
'Tis Sin that swims to its own Door:  
'Tis the Third Scourge of Rebels, which allowed  
Our Army, like the Prophet's Cloud,  
Did from a handful rise, until at last  
By it their Sky was overcast:  
But (as Snakes hiss after they've lost their Sting)  
The Traitors called this Treachery in the King.   

6.  
Away! 
Sixteenth Day Queen HENRIETTE MARIA born.  and view the Graces and the Powers  
Hovering aloof and dropping mingled Flowers  
Upon a Cradle where an Infant lay  
More Grace, more Goddess than are they:  
Thrice did they destiny Her to pass the Seas;  
Love made her thrice to pass with Ease,  
To raise a strength of Princes first, and then  
To raise another strength of men:  
Most fruitful Queen, we boast both Gifts, and thus  
The Day was meant to You, the Joy to Us.   

7.  
Next to this Mother stands a Virgin Queen, 
Seventeenth Day Queen ELIZABETH began her Reign 1558.   
Courting and Courted, wheresoever seen:  
The People's Love first from her Troubles grew,  
Her Reign then made that Love her Due:  
That comely Order which did then adorn  
Both Fabrics, now by Faction's torn,  
That Form by her allowed of Common-Prayer  
Is styled vain beating of the Air:  
How do they Honour, how Forsake her Crown,  
Her Times are still cried up, but practised down.   

8.  
Reach last the whitest Stone the World yet knew, 
Nineteenth Day The Birth of K. CHARLES the First 1600.   
White as his Soul to whom the Day is due;  
Son of the Peaceful james, how is he blest  
With all his Blessings but his Rest!  
Though undeserved Time's cloud all his Powers,  
All Troubles seize on other Hours;  
Let this Day flow to Him, as void of care  
As Feasts to Gods and Poets are;  
The Wish is Just, O Heavens, and as our strife  
Hath added to his Care, add to his Life.   

9  
And now since His large Heart with Hers is met,  
Whose Day the Stars on purpose near have set;  
November shall to me for ever shine  
Red in its Ink, redder in Wine:  
And since the Third Day (which hath now made shift  
T' absolve the Treasons of the Fifth)  
Cannot be well remembered or forgot  
By Loyal Hearts, as if 'twere not:  
The last Extreme against the first We'll bring,  
That gave us many Tyrants, this a King.  
FINIS.