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, etc.  

I.  
GReat Charles hath left the Imperial Crown  
In Peace and Plenty long did Reign,  
His Proud Domestic Foes kept down;  
Forced Foreign Princes to obey,  
And left Great James possessed 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 raised His Name;  
In Showers of Praise from th' Heavens hurled,  
As well in Flanders, France▪ and Spain:  
The rolling 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 Soldiers keeped his Post,  
Defying Death and all Extremes;  
He beat the Dutch and cleared the Coast:  
And ever was a Soldier's 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'er 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 Apparent to the Crown:  
His Brother's Life for to advance,  
His own he freely would lay down:  
Let All, adore so great a King,  
That ne'er desired Imperial Throne;  
But what the Gods enforce and bring,  
He Scorns to lose what is his own.    

London Printed for James Dean, Bookseller in Cranborn-Street near Newport-House in Leicester-fields, 1685