ADVERTISEMENT.

The Author once had thoughts (in concert with a Friend) of giving the Hiftory of English Poetry: In the Introduction to it he meant to have produced fome specimens of the Style that reigned in ancient times among the neighbouring nations, or those who had fubdued the greater part of this Island, and were our Progenitors: the following three Imitations made a part of them. He has long fince drop'd his defign, especially after he had heard, that it was already in the hands of a Ferfon well qualified to do it justice, both by his taste, and his researches into antiquity.

the Orkney-Islands, went with a fleet of

fhips and a confiderable body of troops into

Ireland, to the affiftance of Sitryg with the i filken beard, who was then making war on his father-in-law Brian, King of Dublin: the Earl and all his forces were cut to pieces, and Sitryg was in danger of a total defeat; but the enemy had a greater lofs by the death of Brian, their King, who fell in the action. On Christmas

day,