Meaning
RECK, v.i. [L. rego. See Rack and Reckon.]
To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of. Obs.
Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.
I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.
Of night or loneliness it recks me not.
RECK, v.t. To heed; to regard; to care for.
This son of mine not recking danger.
[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, ""it recks me not,"" that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]
