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hath deuour'd W. A. Wright: The verb is singular because the subject, ‘cruelty and envy,’ is regarded as expressing a single idea, and is probably equivalent to envious cruelty. So in Psalm lxxxiv, 2, ‘My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.’—Verity compares Milton, Lycidas, 6, 7, ‘Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due.’

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