中英文本
Chapter 9 The Mermaid Tavern
第9章 美人鱼酒店
During the next few years the plague was always with us．
随后的几年里，瘟疫流行不断，
Some years it was bad，other years not so bad．
有些年份情况很糟，有些年份也好不了多少。
When the theatres in London closed，we went on tour．
只要伦敦内剧院关门停业，我们就下乡巡回演出。
Well，the King's Men did．
当然，国王剧团一直这么做。
Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers．
威尔和我夏天多半呆在斯特拉福镇的家中。
Will was usually writing，and I did bits of business for him when I could．
威尔通常搞创作，而我则尽可能帮助他打理零碎的生意。
Susanna married Dr John Hall in June，1607，
1607年6月，苏姗娜嫁给约翰·豪尔医生。
and Will's granddaughter Elizabeth was born in February the next year．
翌年2月威尔的外孙女伊丽莎白出世。
We had a very cold winter that year．
那年冬天，天寒地冻，
The river Thames in London froze right up to Westminster．
泰晤士河伦敦河段到西敏斯特河段大面积结冰。
People had parties and cooked sheep over fires on the ice．
人们就在冰上举行盛会，还生起篝火烤羊吃。
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，威尔的弟弟埃德蒙去世—年仅27岁—第二年9月，威尔的母亲又不幸过世。
莎翁经典
狮子疼爱羊羔，羊羔就会永远跟着狮子跑。《亨利六世下篇》
