Henry Perri is well known among Welsh scholars as the author of Eglvryn Phraethineb. sebh, Dosparth ar Retoreg, vn o'r saith gelbhydhyd, Yn dyscu lhuniaith ymadrodh, a'i pherthynassau (The Pattern of Eloquence, that is, an Account of Rhetoric, one of the seven arts, teaching figurative language and its relationships, 1595). This book is of interest for the way it uses the resources of medieval and sixteenth-century bardic poetry to impart educational ideals deriving from English intellectual life. Although resembling works by English writers in its view of the moral, social, and religious values inculcated by the study of rhetoric, it contrasts with them in its attitude toward earlier vernacular literature. Perri was able to use earlier Welsh poetry for his purposes in a way English writers could not use medieval English poetry for theirs. While his treatise thus shows the appearance in Welsh of attitudes toward discourse that derived...