The spell Hobnelia. [graphic][1784?]engFrom the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."Title from item.Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate.Numbered '506' in lower left of plate.Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.