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David and Ben Crystal in their wonderful Shakespeare’s Words: a Glossary & Language Companion* confirm your lookup of fardel as burden, load, bundle.
Billy also used the word in Winter’s Tale:
[Autolycus to Shepherd] The fardel there, what’s i’th’ fardel?
* http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1176741
> but thinking makes it so
Many read this whole speech as an exposition of a profoundly existential exploration of his predicament.
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