Quoth, v. i.

(kwōth, or kwŭth), v. i. [A-S. cwædhan, imp. cwæð, O. Sax. quethan, O. Fries. quetha, Goth. qvithan, O. H. Ger. quethan, quedan, Icel. qveda, Sw. qvida, Dan. qvæde.] Said; spoke; — used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses; as, quoth I, quoth he, and with the nominative always following the verb.

Let me not live, quoth he. Shak.