Note 454 — SCENE III.

Here’s no sweet coil.] “It is observed by Dr. Warburton (see note to 1st part Henry 4th, A. 5, S. 3.), that in Shakespeare’s time the negative in common speech was used to design, ironically, the excess of a thing; and this assertion is fully confirmed by the several examples produced by Mr. Steevens in proof of it.” Reed.