deserve

To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.

After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.

To earn, win.

That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.

To reward, to give in return for service.

Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte

Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; / I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! / And raise some special officers of night. / On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.

To serve; to treat; to benefit.

c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman A man that hath / So well deserved me.