...WHO CHOOSETH ME SHALL GET AS MUCH AS HE DESERVES J " and the inscription on the casket of lead was, " WHO CHOOSETH ME MUST GIVE AND HAZARD ALL HE HATH." One of these caskets enclosed Portia's porLait. All the lords who came to woo Portia were invited to make...

...localization of fair Portia's counterfeit: and let me recall to you the inscriptions on the caskets: Gold. Who chooseth me, shall gain what many men desire....Who chooseth me, must give and hazard all he hath. Morocco, one of the greatest of Shakspeare's lesser characters, is, of course, Othello's understudy....

...marriage must choose the correct one. Each is engraved with a message and is of a different metal: Gold - "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire."..."Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath." The gold and silver ones contain messages which berate the chooser as one who judges by surface value...