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Dives and Pauper, Vol. II, ed. Priscilla Heath Barnum, EETS, os 323 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). lxxxiii + 451 pp. ISBN 0-19-722326-5. £65.00. The publication of one volume of an edition with the promise of another to follow constitutes something of a hostage to fortune; there is always uncertainty about the appearance of the future volume, and indeed, there are some notable instances in the Early English Text Series where these have never materialized, necessitating a consequent sad relabelling as 'all published'. Happily, Dives and Pauper, an expansive early fifteenth-century commentary on the decalogue cast in dialogue form, escapes this fate, with the...