fardel

The maiden's future is a fardel upon my shoulders now, and they are not over strong.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

I ask, for Day, the use which is the Wife’s: To bear, apart from thy delight and thee, The fardel coarse of customary life’s Exceeding injucundity.

From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Well-a-day! securely I can carry a fardel without tarnishing my spurs?

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

"Woe's my old bones!" he was muttering: "here's a fardel for a man o' my years!"

From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan