Quoth (kwōth or kwŭth), v. t. [AS. cweðan, imp. cwæð, pl. cwǣdon; 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.