king lear

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             Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
             All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
             Edmund is bluntly saying he has a gullible father and an honourable brother who he can take advantage of. Edmund states that to him everything that he can use to achieve his purposes is fitting and justifiable. Edmund has no respect for his brother's honesty or his father's trust in him. Edmund is jealous of Edgar because he gets his father's land due to birthright, so he says if he can't get the land from birth he will have to get it out of wit.
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