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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 

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