eight o'clock
Boys , immature in knowledge , Pawn their experience to their present pleasure . '' _ The main bar , decorated with variegated lights and shining blue bottles and glasses , with pewter and silver mugs in theatrical rows , lent a kind of enchantment to the nightly scene . Round , square and octagonal oak tables were scattered through the various rooms , and rough leather lounges skirted the walls . Promptly at eight o'clock William and myself passed the stony portals of the Boar 's Head , and were ushered into the back ground floor dining room where we met our friend Field and a playwright named Christopher Marlowe , standing before a great open chimney , with a blazing fire and a splendid supper . Field seemed to take great pride in making us acquainted with Marlowe , the greatest actor and dramatist of his day , whose plays were even then the talk and delight of London . `` Tamberlaine the Great '' and `` Dr. Faustus '' had been successfully launched at the Blackfriars , and young Marlowe was in his glory , the wit and toast of the town . He was but twenty-five years of age , finely formed , a voluptuary , high jutting forehead , dark hazel eye , and a typical image of a bohemian poet .