Quoth (kwōth or
kwŭth), v. t. [AS. cweðan, imp. cwæð, pl. cw&aemacr;don; akin to OS. queðan, OHG. quethan,
quedan, Icel. kveða, Goth. qiþan. √22. Cf. Bequeath.]
Said;
spoke; uttered; -- used only
in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object: as, quoth I, quoth he. "Let me not live,
quoth he."
Shak.