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Definition:to heed
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Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Of alle men his wisdom is highest,
That recketh not who hath the world in hand.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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Then pray I you, to-morrow with a spear
That Arcita me through the hearte bear
Then reck I not, when I have lost my life,
Though that Arcita win her to his wife.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
reck is used in Canterbury Tales 19 times
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Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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