let (v.) Old form(s): letts
hinder, prevent, stand in the way
CE II.i.105[Adriana to Luciana, of her husband] I know his eye doth homage otherwhere, / Or else what lets it but he would be here?
Ham I.iv.85[Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus] I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
Luc.328[] those bars which stop the hourly dial, / Who with a lingering stay his course doth let
TG III.i.113[Valentine to Duke, of the Duke's lady] What lets but one may enter at her window?
TN V.i.246[Viola as Cesario to Sebastian] If nothing lets to make us happy both / But this my masculine usurped attire
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