fardel

In travail, as in tears, With the fardel of her years Overprest,— In mercy was she borne Where the weary ones and worn Are at rest.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson

Trust me, I’ll look in on her, and see what I may do, so soon as I’ve borne this fardel home.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin

After venting that brief soliloquy he sat silent a little while, till Leonard was nearly out of sight, then rose, resumed his fardel, and, creeping quick along the hedgerows, followed Leonard toward the town.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

To mark if e'er I knew him?  and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear.

From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 by Henry Francis Cary

No doubt this was true, and no doubt it braved her for the carrying of her boy's garnish, otherwise a risky fardel for a young woman.

From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett

And then there it was, in “To be, or not to be”: “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016

Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"

From Time Magazine Archive

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin/ That makes calamity of so long life;/ For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane .

From Time Magazine Archive

In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan