Careful Words

fig (n.)

Let the world slide, let the world go;

A fig for care, and a fig for woe!

If I can't pay, why I can owe,

And death makes equal the high and low.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Be Merry Friends.

  They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.

Old Testament: Genesis iii. 7.

  They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.

Old Testament: Micah iv. 4.