quoth's Usage Examples:

I ask'd the fiend, for whom these rites were meant?These graves, quoth he, when life's brief oil is spent,When the dark night comes, and they're sinking bedwards,I mean for Castles, Oliver, and Edwards.

The barde worth brane wod, and bitterly couth ban, "How Corby messinger", quoth he, "with sorowe now syngis, Thow ischit.

replaced in more recent editions of Modern English Usage by, amongst others, betimes, peradventure, quoth and whilom.

word comes for the Scottish and Northern Irish quo he, a shortened form of quoth.

Old Song What ails you so melancholy, quoth John, so cross? You seem all snappish, uneasy, and fretful.

DescriptionIt is also a sort of deity, or attribute of God as nous or mind as expressed in the following translationsJohn Everard translation:Then said I, Who art Thou?I am, quoth he, Poemander, the mind of the Great Lord, the most Mighty and absolute Emperor: I know what thou wouldest have, and I am always present with thee.

Henry Erskine is said to have written the following lines to her:That is, quoth he, as if the Sun should say,A vile dark morning this – I will not rise to-day.

quoth)Old English: sēoþan (sīeþþ) sēaþ – sudon soden (to boil, cf.

wisdom in South-West Midland Middle English, each proverb ending with "quoth Hending" ”, a construction like that of a Wellerism.

Modern English Usage by, amongst others, betimes, peradventure, quoth and whilom.

the garment which he knew, Receyve thou my bloud too (quoth he) and therewithal he drew His sworde, the which among his guttes he thrust, and by and.

lowered the brows of Endicott, and with a deeper red O"er Rawson"s wine-empurpled cheek the flash of anger spread; "Good people, " quoth the white-lipped.

"Why, then, Goody Two-shoes, what if it be? Hold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle," quoth he.