But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?'

The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'

But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?'

And the trees said to the fig tree, 'Come you, and reign over us.'