Ahi quanto cauti li uomini esser dienno presso a color che non veggion pur l'ovra, ma per entro i pensier miran col senno!
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Do you think he will come?” —“Why are you in such a fright?” said the City one; “come, let us enjoy dainties which you may seek in vain in the country.”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Its chief appellation comes from that of its chief city, which in turn is more than vague as to its etymology: Lugdunum we know, of course, and we can trace its evolution even unto the Anglicized Lyons, but when philologists, antiquarians, and "pedants of mere pretence" ask us to choose between le corbeau — lougon , un eminence — dounon , lone —an arm of a river, and dun the Celtic word for height, we are amazed, and are willing enough to leave the solving of the problem to those who will find a greater pleasure therein.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Wherefore they used to cover the face of the accused, while they laid their hands on the afflicted, and then it obtained the desired issue: for it hath been experienced (both in examinations and trials), that, so soon as the afflicted came in sight of the accused, they were immediately cast into their fits; yea, though the accused were among the crowd of people unknown to the sufferers, yet, on the first view, were they struck down, which was observed in a child of four or five years of age, when it was apprehended, that so many as she could look upon, either directly or by turning her head, were immediately struck into their fits.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

The gayety is that of despair—the gayety that says: "Come, let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Sophocle, qui semble avoir été le plus malin des dramaturges, comme il est le plus parfait des écrivains dramatiques, a cherché là un effet de contraste dont l’effet est immanquant sur le public.’
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Enter Dibbs quickly, with card, L. U. E. Dibbs.
— from Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Shirley

Come, let us eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

But I gathered that Lady Sellingworth had been for years and years one of those who go on their way chanting, ‘Let us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die.’
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

The next Sunday the people found the churchyard locked up, except during service, when beadles walked there, and desired them not to loiter and disturb the congregation, closing the gates, and showing them out like a flock of sheep the moment the service was over.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various