two o'clock
This was surely showing great confidence in a young actor and author -- to criticise the play of acknowledged dramatists who had been the talk of the town . Shakspere modestly remarked : `` I fear , sir , your friends , Lodge and Greene , will not like or tolerate my cutting of their play . '' `` Care not for their opinion ! Do as I say , and have the play ready for staging Monday afternoon at two o'clock . '' `` Your command is law , and I obey , '' said the Bard -- and out rushed the bluffing , busy Burbage . The constant circulation of bohemian customers , day and night about the Devil 's Tavern , was not conducive to careful composition of plays , and William and myself moved to modest quarters near Paris Garden , kept by a Miss Maggie Mellow , a blonde maiden of uncertain age . William continued to perform his theatrical duties diligently , while I was engaged at the printing shop of Field , translating historic , dramatic and poetic works from Latin authors , thus piecing out the price of food , clothes and shelter in the whirlpool of London joy and misery .