Richard Hearne’s Ros CŒli (1640): More Piracies, Including Felltham’s ‘True Happiness’/‘Upon the Vanity of the World

In 1640, the London printer Richard Hearne published a duodecimo volume titled Ros Coeli. Or, A Miscellany of Ejaculations, Divine, Morall, and c. Being an extract out of divers worthy authors, ancient and modem. Wliich may enrich the mean capacity, and added somewhat to the most knowing judgment. C. A. Patrides showed in a pair of articles in the 1950s that this volume contains significant and unattributed verbatim passages drawn from Sir Francis Bacon's essays 'Of Studies' and 'Of Truth' and from the Resolves of Owen Felltham. Here, Blaine examines Hearne's Ros Coeli.