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