She first appears early in the play, claiming that she is weary of "this great world," and later on she asks her lover "what treason there is mingled with your love?"
She first appears early in the play, claiming that she is weary of "this great world," and later on she asks her lover "what treason there is mingled with your love?" Her last line promises to "Answer all things faithfully," and in her most famous words she says of a certain entity that, "it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown" and "it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven." She dismisses the Prince of Aragon and the Prince of Morocco from her company for failing to choose the right cask, disguises herself at one point as a man named Balthasar, and frequently discusses her life with Nerissa. FTP name this character whose portrait lies in a chest of lead until Bassanio comes to marry her, the lead female role in The Merchant of Venice.
She first appears early in the play, claiming that she is weary of "this great world," and later on she asks her lover "what treason there is mingled with your love?"
{Portia}