quotha

• “He gravely thought poetry a sort of disease ” a sort of fungus of the brain ” and held as a serious opinion, that nobody could be properly well who exercised it as an art ” which was true (he maintained) even of men ” he had studied the physiology of poets, 'quotha' ” but that for women, it was a mortal malady and incompatible with any common show of health under any circumstances.”

  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

• “Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: “Learning, quotha!” said he; “I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!””

  Virginibus Puerisque and other papers

• ““Pay thee wages, quotha?” said Milnwood to himself, — “Thou wilt eat in a week the value of mair than thou canst work for in a month.””

  Old Mortality

• ““Prospered, quotha!” said the mercer; “why, you remember Cumnor Place, the old mansion-house beside the churchyard?””

  Kenilworth

• “Nothing, quotha, cried Friar John; by the soul of my overheated codpiece, friend Panurge and I here shake and quiver for mere hunger.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Marry, quotha, more words than one to that bargain.”

  The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother

• “_ Pray tell that civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, that if he has any more such Sums to fool away, they shall be received like the last; Ha, ha, ha, ha, chous'd, quotha!”

  The Busie Body

• “-- ( "Spare," quotha, "is his majesty's officer a joint stool?") -- "Why, Mr. Kennedy, why? here, man, take a glass of grog.”

  Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.

• “Gentleman, quotha!" was echoed on all sides, with a shout of unextinguishable laughter; "a very pretty gentleman, God wot -- Canst get two swords for the gentleman to fight with, Ralph Heskett?”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827

• “Jewels, quotha! will they stop such a gap as ours?" was the contemptuous reply.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866

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