William Shakespeare: Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me.

Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them — William Shakespeare

Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me.

William Shakespeare

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