fardel

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

Remembering the which, I gathered unto myself divers pretty toys—you shall hear them sweetly a-jingle in my fardel here.

From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

Time, so far, had brought with him only a complication of troubles, more tangled than his usual fardel.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

Such are bordel, chapel, duel, fardel, gabel, gospel, gravel, lamel, label, libel, marvel, model, novel, parcel, quarrel, and spinel.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan