rosepot

Updated: April 30, 2025

For although all that my adversary hath spoken be of a very soft and downy truth, in so much as concerns the letter and history of the factum, yet nevertheless the crafty slights, cunning subtleties, sly cozenages, and little troubling entanglements are hid under the rosepot, the common cloak and cover of all fraudulent deceits.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2