fardel

I’ll rest my fardel a bit on the stile while Emmet comes up.”

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

With no fardel on its own back, yet so imperious towards those who came labouring after it, Hellas, in its early freshness, looked as distant from him even then as it does from ourselves.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Walter Pater

I'm sore bestead, Priscilla—I have a quarrel with Myles Standish, and 't is as big a fardel as my shoulders will bear.

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

Besides carrying her own fardel, this poor wife was expected to fold and direct wrappers for her husband's precious journal, he finding "mechanical writing too exhausting and stultifying."

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

What a satire was in this their so contemptible a fardel, who would lightly toss away another man's dear life!

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis

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

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

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