A discussion of infant mortality during the time of Shakespeare in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3.
Nurse
Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me. But, as I said,
Apparently the nurse had a daughter named Susan who died in childhood. This was not unusual in Shakespeare’s day. Only slightly more than half of newborns would survive to reach Juliet’s age.
