of Q. Elizabeth's time, or something better? But to whatever age, or to
whatever author we are indebted for this beautiful piece, it must be
allowed an honour to both, and therefore worth contending for on behalf
of our own time.'"

I wonder whether this be the "Colin and Lucy" that V. Bourne translated.

I have not Tickel's works, and therefore cannot discover whether he be the
author of that beautiful (whatever Southey may say) ballad beginning with--

"In Leinster famed for maidens fair," &c.

A.B.

_Chapel, Printing-office._--Is there any other authority than Creery's
_Press_ for the statement that printing-offices are called chapels?
Whatever may have been the case, at present the word "chapel" is applied to
the persons, or companionship, employed in the office, not to the office
itself.

GOMER.

[_Moxon_, in his _Mechanick Exercises_, vol. ii. p. 356. 4to. 1683,
says: "Every printing-house is by the custom of time out of mind called
a chappel; and all the workmen that belong to it are members of the
chappel: and the oldest freeman is father of the chappel. I suppose the
style was originally conferred upon it by the courtesie of some great
Churchman, or men, (doubtless, when chappels were in more veneration
than of late years they have been here in England), who, for the books
of divinity that proceeded from a printing-house, gave it the reverend