I offer you a cake in one hand, a stick in the other; choose.

Reply to the threats of the Miramolin (presumably Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq). Source: Juan Ferreras, vol. 4, p. 345. Reported in: Jules Michelet, History of France, translated by G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), p. 337