fardel
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I observed one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
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
His gold chain of pride he hath laid aside, And furred gown of the scarlet red;He set on his back a fardel and pack, And a hood on his grizzled head.
From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I trembled for fear in his virtuous scorn he should take his fardel away again.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
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
In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet asks himself why he should bear fardels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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