fardel

"Whom would fardels bear under such a weary and long life.... when he could his quietus make with a bare bodkin?"

And the Emperor received “two fardels of cinnamon.”

And then there it was, in “To be, or not to be”: “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?”

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

The sharp corners of the fardels were ploughing into his back.