\Quoth\, v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp cw[ae][eth], pl.
cw[=ae]don; akin to OS. que[eth]an, OHG. quethan, quedan,
Icel. kve[eth]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an. [root]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.