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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions" is from Hamlet. I think you're confounding this quotation with one from Jean Rhys's novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, which begins with the reflection, "They say when trouble comes, close ranks..." But it's painful to think Billy Shakespeare would have written the mangled version in the question!Famous quote by William Shakespeare, as it appears in Act IV, Scene V; Jean Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea."

This "mangled" form is also quoted verbatim in the movie Young Guns II by Jose Chavez Y Chavez. He attributes it to his friend and fellow gang member Doc Scurlock. Upon hearing it, Doc finally comes clean and tells Chavez he didn't write it, William Shakespeare did.

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