Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
Shall not be long but I'll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst
The worst is death, and death will have his day.