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burden, burthen (n.)
bass accompaniment [in a song]
MA III.iv.40[Margaret to Beatrice] Clap's into 'Light o'love'; that goes without a burden [also: weight of a man]
TS I.ii.67[Petruchio to Hortensio] wealth is burden of my wooing dance
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