/// Portia’s late father’s cryptic bequest:
he who’d marry her must pass a test.
Among three caskets choose;
pick a wrong one— you lose.
Here Bassanio outwits the rest.
/// Suitor One made the gold one his pick,
but he hadn’t deciphered the trick.
Silver for Suitor Two,
but his chance, he too, blew.
The lead casket is what won the chick.
/// Portia’s late father’s cryptic bequest:
he who’d marry her must pass a test.
Among three caskets choose;
pick a wrong one— you lose.
Here Bassanio outwits the rest.
/// Suitor One made the gold one his pick,
but he hadn’t deciphered the trick.
Silver for Suitor Two,
but his chance, he too, blew.
The lead casket is what won the chick.