ENGLAND'S Second Happiness Upon the PROCLAMATION of King JAMES the SECOND, A SONG
To the Tune of—When May in all her Youthful Dress, &c.
I.
GReat
Charles hath left the Imperial Crown
In Peace and Plenty long did Reign,
His Proud Domestick Foes kept down;
Forc'd Forreign Princes to obey,
And left Great
James possest with Power
And Strength; to make the World Proclaim
Him
King and
Caesar every hour;
Let
James, let
James for ever Reign.
II.
Through the four Corners of the World,
His Mighty Soul hath rais'd His Name;
In Showers of Praise from th' Heavens hurl'd,
As well in
Flanders, France▪ and Spain:
The rouling Seas did Calm their Waves,
And
Neptune did support the Keel,
O'th'
Royal Sovereign through, The Slaves
O'th'
Hogines with Blood, Fire and Steel▪
III.
I'th' Head o'th' the English Horse
James,
With private Souldiers kep'd his Post,
Defying Death and all Extreams;
He beat the
Dutch and clear'd the Coast:
And ever was a Souldiers Friend,
'Gainst Rigid Rage of Rumps Decrees,
Who did an Army once disband,
No fear I hope, of Rumps like these.
IV.
False
Chitophel, his Plot did Frame,
Two Royal Brothers to de-Throne,
To Exterpate the Sacred Name
Of
Stuarts, which all Christian own
To be the undoubted Sovereign King,
Of these three Nations and the Seas;
Whose Praise the
Angels daily sing,
And Curse on those that disobeys.
V.
Great
JAMES of resolution strong,
Ne'r failed to maintain the Right
By
Sea or
Land, amongst the Throng;
As great in
Conduct as in
Fight,
Yet more Obedient to his Prince,
Than
Loyalist of meanest Race;
At his command for no offence,
Thrice left his Home the
State to please.
VI.
Nay more than
Mortal in a Prince,
And
Heir Apparant to the
Crown:
His
Brothers Life for to advance,
His own he freely would lay down:
Let
All, adore so great a King,
That n'er desired
Imperial Throne;
But what the
Gods inforce and bring,
He Scorns to loose what is his own.
London Printed for James Dean, Bookseller in Cranborn-Street near Newport-House in Leicester-fields, 1685