The most widely circulated English rhetorician in the sixteenth century, Thomas Wilson is remembered primarily for his logic, The rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique (1551), and his comprehensive Ciceronian rhetoric, The Arte of Rhetorique, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence (1553), each the first of its kind in the English language and the most reprinted of its kind at the time: three editions and four reprints of The rule of Reason and two editions and six reprints of The Arte of Rhetorique appeared during the sixteenth century alone. The impact of these two works upon the literary and political milieu of sixteenth-century England, and indeed upon the writers and orators of subsequent ages, should not be underestimated. Two works of midcareer, a translation of The Three Orations of Demosthenes chiefe Orator among the Grecians, in fauour of the Olynthians (1570) and A Discourse...