Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quoth

Quoth (kwōth o kwuth) , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon cweean, imp cwae, pl. cwadon; akin to Old Saxon queean, Old High German quethan, quedan, Icelandic kveea, Gothic qiþan. r22. Compare 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. — Shakespeare