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Dear REED list, I've been caught up on a minor point in the current EETS Edition of the Chester cycle, and thought I'd open it up to the list. For the Chester Passion, Mills and Lumiansky gloss the torturers' dice rolls of "dubletts," "cator-traye," and "synnce" as three twos, three fours, and three fives, respectively. I've been scanning various medieval and early modern sources and cannot figure out the source of those glosses -- all of my sources point to "a pair," "a three and a four," and "five" for the rolls (even though the rolls were on three dice -- I've found other cases in which a three-die roll is referred to by a functional pair within it, regardless of the value of the third die). However, my instinct is still to trust Mills and Lumiansky's reading; can anyone point me in the right direction to find further textual support for their gloss? Gratefully, Matthew Sergi Ph.D. Candidate, English and Medieval Studies University of California, Berkeley