I.iii.142 (382,9) It was my hint to speak] [W:  hent] Hent is not used in Shakespeare, nor, I believe, in any other author; hint, or cue, is comnonly used for occasion of speech, which is explained by, such was the process, that is, the course of the tale required it.  If hent be restored, it may be explained by handle.  I had a handle, or opportunity, to speak of cannibals.

I.iii.144 (382,1) men whose heads/Do grow beneath their shoulders] Of these men there is an account in the interpolated travels of Mondeville, a book of that time.

I.iii.199 (384,4) Let me speak like yourself;] [W:  our self] Hanmer reads,

  Let me now speak more like your self.

Dr. Warburton’s emendation is specious; but I do not see how Hanmer’s makes any alteration.  The duke seems to mean, when he says he will speak like Brabantio, that he will speak sententiously.

I.iii.213 (385,6) But the free comfort which from thence he hears] But the moral precepts of consolation, which are liberally bestowed on occasion of the sentence.

I.iii.232 (386,8) thrice-driven bed of down] A driven bed, is a bed for which the feathers are selected, by driving with a fan, which separates the light from the heavy.

I.iii.237 (337,9)

  I crave fit disposition for my wife;
  Due reverence of place, and exhibition]

I desire, that a proper disposition be made for my wife, that she may have precedency, and revenue, accommodation, and company, suitable to her rank.

For reference of place, the old quartos have reverence, which Hanmer has received.  I should read,

  Due preference of place.—­

I.iii.246 (387,1) And let me find a charter in your voice] Let your favour privilege me.

I.iii.250 (387,2) My down-right violence and storm of fortunes] [W:  to forms, my fortunes] There is no need of this emendation. Violence is not violence suffered, but violence acted.  Breach of common rules and obligations.  The old quarto has, scorn of fortune, which is perhaps the true reading.

I.iii.253 (388,3) I saw Othello’s visage in his mind] It must raise no wonder, that I loved a man of an appearance so little engaging; I saw his face only in his mind; the greatness of his character reconciled me to his form.

I.iii.264 (386,4)

  Nor to comply with heat (the young affects,
  In me defunct) and proper satisfaction]

[T:  me distinct, i.e. with that heat and new affections which the indulgence of my appetite has raised and created.  This is the meaning of defunct, which has made all the difficulty of the passage.  WARBURTON.] I do not think that Mr. Theobald’s emendation clears the text from embarrassment, though it is with a little imaginary improvement received by Hanmer, who reads thus: