I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. --Shak.
2. To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to
vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
Nor would we deign him burial of his men. --Shak.
O deign to visit our forsaken seats. --Pope.
Yet not Lord Cranstone deigned she greet. --Sir W.
Scott.
Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to
see. --Macaulay.
Note: In early English deign was often used impersonally.
Him deyneth not to set his foot to ground.
--Chaucer.