The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger. What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun
And keep it from the earth.
Also:
By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.
What, Davy, I say!
Carribbean is always hellishly expensive for life's little luxuries. A civil servant friend of mine spent three years in Barbados on a posting. Very nice it was too - a house at Atlantic Shores, with a maid and gardener; all paid for by HMG. In a moment of drunken folly (which I have never allowed him to forget) he admitted that he also got a special Hardship Allowance - ostensibly to cover the high cost of living on the island but in fact, imho, to pay for weaning him off the Cockspur 5 star when he got back home.....