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Tecson and Desiderio, Jr. vs. COMELEC, Fernando Poe Jr, et al. [SEPARATE OPINION, J. PUNO]

MARIA JEANETTE C. TECSON and FELIX B. DESIDERIO, JR., petitioners, vs. The COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RONALD ALLAN KELLY POE (a.k.a. FERNANDO POE, JR.) and VICTORINO X. FORNIER, respondents. [SEPARATE OPINION, J. PUNO]

G.R. No. 161434 | 2004-03-03

SEPARATE OPINION

PUNO, J.:

Why bastard? Wherefore
When my dimensions are well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true
As honest madam's issue?
Why brand they us
With base? With baseness
Bastardy? Base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull stale, tired bed,
Got 'tween sleep and wake?
- well then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund.
As to the legitimate: fine word - legitimate!
Well my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper -
Now,...