Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quoth \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.