"FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN TOTO."

NZ Truth, Issue 65, 15 September 1906, Page 7

"FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN TOTO."

(In dismissing a case at Lambeth .(Eng.) Fojice Court, Mr. Francis said he had been told a. lot of things by the prosecutor that he did not believe ; and his Worship proceeded to point put that there was an old maxim" bf law, arid a very good one— "Falsus "ib>. ; . Uno, falsus m toto.;" !; or, "False, m (one particular, false m, all.")

That wise scrap of; legal Latin Sliggers always bore m mind, _ And it guided him m all his love affairs ; He felt certain that the right MissnPight he'd ultimately find |... By employing that sage maxim 'gainst all snares.- ■ Thus when Adelina told him that , she'd love him all her life ' With a love whole-hearted, tender, true and strong, ■o- ' . ./■ He began io think he need not ,-lopk much farther for at, wife ; „. , „, But it happened '.s£>at.' her birthday came aloig, ,'■"'.' '. 7 ' , , And she told "him shi was twenty,', arid, ,as m l a ; vision di^ij, 1 ' He recalled sfte'd said that years before, and heneeT. : ' -t/ h- , . ' •■ ■'<;{■• • He. could no t; believe > she, meant .it when

she vowed that she , loved him, ' And the match' was.- broken ' off in..,con-! sequence. ' ' ..- : •- For he argued, as a reason for love's swift decline and 1 fall, "II she's false' m one "particular, "you j bet she's false m all 1" . .-.■•• Next he courted. Cledpatra, and it looked aa if there/ might Be' a' wedding m "the coming by-and-byei ■ ' But that match was al/so broken off, again true love took flight, And, when Sliggera' oldest chujn said, TelKnie why !" The e'er, cautioys one growled, pettishly, ' "I found she> was a sell.

I discovered she not only had false

hair, - . ' . , But false teeth, and a, false leg, and other falsities as well ; . And s for artificial products I don't .-■•' , care.'' ■'■■.■ , •'But," his friend expostulated, ''I can't credit the report, ;Ybu exaggerate, and go a bit to6~'far\; Shß has one or two ifals© teeth; no doubt,^: but Sliggers cut him short, And hilariously chortled, "There you ' - are ! . ■.., Isn't t,hat fac^, quite enough a cute^»oTw -■■■ server tq;>ppal? . . %& If she's.jfalse. m one partipular: you she^lfglse- m all I"- • ./ J^

Then he-woqed the fair G|ardenia, who : seamed, so truly true ": ' •That in.'wedllock's chains he finally was .bound ; ... . . ■ . And at first no storm-clouds darkened the bright firmament of blue Which smiled o'er* them on their life's diurnal rorind. But one day he told his chum, "There's nothing" for it but divorce; She is false to me, as false as we're her snares." , r ■ "You surprise me," said the chum ; "you've ample proof of it of course ?" List-!' said Sliggers. "Hearing voices below stairs, I went down and found her. talking to a . man I didn't know." , . • "But," the chiim remarked, "I'm .not quite . satisfied •. • ' „.',■ .- <■ There was anything them." Q . ' 'Wait." said Sli gg ersjj"haU a m.6-: She declared he was thtf plumber and she lied ! * A The foun^i^ difference not small— If she's false^in sone particular, youYtfet she s false" m all !" *~\ . , DOSS cpspßKDo93i '