And for all this I know now that retribution awaits me, and that the avengers are already standing as it were at the goal, and are pressing close to me, eager to slay me, and every day, or I may rather say, every hour, I die before my time, enduring many deaths instead of one, the last of all." This is like the passage in Shakespeare— Cowards die many times before their deaths; The brave men only taste of death but once." 
 This is like the passage in Shakespeare— Cowards die many times before their deaths; The brave men only taste of death but once."