 Studying The Merchant of Venice? Here's how you can analyse that to scene 9. We're taking back to Portia's home in Belmont and these stage directions show that a Spanish nobleman has come to win Portia's hand in marriage. Aragon remembers the conditions of the casket. If he chooses the wrong casket he can never marry another woman. We can see he's quite wise because he rejects the golden casket as he believes that choosing what everybody desires can lead you to make mistakes because you're just following the crowd. He then speaks using listing to state that he will not pick the lead casket because it's not good enough to risk his entire estate and all his possessions for. He picks a silver casket and to his dismay he sees a picture of a fool's head rather than Portia's picture. The silver casket's message mocks him for being far too overconfident which led him to be a fool. Once the Prince leaves Portia's servant tells her that a new suitor from Venice has come with expensive gifts for the nobleman. They don't know who he is but Narissa hopes it's Bessoni.