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Chapter 9 The Mermaid Tavern
第9章 美人魚酒店
During the next few years the plague was always with us．
隨后的幾年里，瘟疫流行不斷，
Some years it was bad，other years not so bad．
有些年份情況很糟，有些年份也好不了多少。
When the theatres in London closed，we went on tour．
只要倫敦內劇院關門停業，我們就下鄉巡回演出。
Well，the King's Men did．
當然，國王劇團一直這么做。
Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers．
威爾和我夏天多半呆在斯特拉福鎮的家中。
Will was usually writing，and I did bits of business for him when I could．
威爾通常搞創作，而我則盡可能幫助他打理零碎的生意。
Susanna married Dr John Hall in June，1607，
1607年6月，蘇姍娜嫁給約翰·豪爾醫生。
and Will's granddaughter Elizabeth was born in February the next year．
翌年2月威爾的外孫女伊麗莎白出世。
We had a very cold winter that year．
那年冬天，天寒地凍，
The river Thames in London froze right up to Westminster．
泰晤士河倫敦河段到西敏斯特河段大面積結冰。
People had parties and cooked sheep over fires on the ice．
人們就在冰上舉行盛會，還生起篝火烤羊吃。
Will's brother Edmund died that winter—he was only twenty-seven—and Will's mother died in September the next year．
那年冬天，威爾的弟弟埃德蒙去世—年僅27歲—第二年9月，威爾的母親又不幸過世。
