“`The game is done! I've won, I've won!' / Quoth she, and whistles thrice.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate”
Samuel Butler
“Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last”
“Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.”
Bible
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
William Shakespeare
“Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be”
John Donne
