Careful Words

behind (n.)

behind (v.)

behind (adv.)

behind (adj.)

I must be cruel, only to be kind:

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

  An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.