Question

write a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title

FORTUNE is like the market; where many

times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Again, it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer; which at

first, offereth the commodity at full, then con-

sumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the

price. For occasion (as it is in the common verse)

turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her

locks in front, and no hold taken; or at least turneth

the handle of the bottle, first to be received, and

after the belly, which is hard to clasp. There is

surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the

beginnings, and onsets, of things. Dangers are no

more light, if they once seem light; and more dan-

gers have deceived men, than forced them. Nay,

it were better, to meet some dangers half way,

though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man

watch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep. On the

other side, to be deceived with too long shadows

(as some have been, when the moon was low, and

shone on their enemies' back), and so to shoot off

before the time; or to teach dangers to come on, by

over early buckling towards them; is another ex-

treme. The ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion

(as we said) must ever be well weighed; and gener-

ally it is good, to commit the beginnings of all

great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes, and

the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands; first

to watch, and then to speed. For the helmet of

Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible,

is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execu-

tion. For when things are once come to the execu-

tion, there is no secrecy, comparable to celerity;

like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth

so swift, as it outruns the eye.​

Answer 1

u can name the passage as fortune... may be

Answer 2

the suitable title for this is:FORTUNE