Bassanio doesn’t recognize his disguised wife, but offers to give a present to the supposed lawyer. First, she declines, but after he insists, Portia requests his ring (Balthasar (Portia) want to test Bassanio with the opportunity) and Antonio's gloves. Antonio parts with his gloves without a second thought, but Bassanio gives the ring only after much persuasion from Antonio, as earlier in the play, he promised his wife never to lose, sell or give it. Nerissa, as the lawyer's clerk, succeeds in likewise retrieving her ring from Gratiano, who does not see through her disguise. Then, they back to Belmont.

 At Belmont, Portia and Nerissa taunt and pretend to accuse their husbands before revealing they were really the lawyer and his clerk in disguise.