fardel

I’ll but lay down my fardel, and then step o’er to poor Sens Bradbridge.”

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

"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

Long before Shakspere, perhaps with fardel on his back, travelled to London, the stage, not only in the capital, but in the whole country, had begun to exercise its attractive power upon the people's imagination.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis

Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Eye-colours for dying blue, almost as good as indigo, made up in round cakes, and packed 100 cakes in a fardel, worth fifty to sixty.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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

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

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