For 10 points, name this wife of Bassanio who prevents Shylock from taking a pound of Antonio's flesh in The Merchant of Venice.
This character claims, "The brain may / devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps / o'er a cold decree" before recoiling at the word "choose." This character asserts that "the crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended" while listening to music at the end of the play in which she appears. This character wishes, "Let all of his complexion choose me so" after a dark-skinned Moroccan (*) suitor finds a scroll claiming "all that glisters is not gold" instead of her portrait. After describing "an attribute of God himself" "enthroned in the hearts of kings," this character is lauded as "a Daniel come to judgment." This heiress of Belmont demands that her husband return a ring that he gave to her while she was disguised as a lawyer who gave a speech about the "quality of mercy." For 10 points, name this wife of Bassanio who prevents Shylock from taking a pound of Antonio's flesh in The Merchant of Venice.
This character claims, "The brain may / devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps / o'er a cold decree" before recoiling at the word "choose.
Portia [accept Balthazar]