fardel
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Item, they took out of the foresaid ship from Roger Hood, one fardel of cloth, and one chest with diuers goods, to the value of 58. lib.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Wallis, Arthur F.
Well-a-day! securely I can carry a fardel without tarnishing my spurs?
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
I find I want you to take up the fardel of public life; not to be a pessimistic complainer, standing aside with your hands in your pockets, but a citizen.
From The Day of His Youth by Brown, Alice
“Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads’ new jerkins.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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 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
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
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