| CE V.i.344 | [Abbess to Egeon] a wife once called Aemilia, / That bore thee at a burden two fair sons |
| KJ III.i.90 | [Constance to King Philip, of the marriage day being recognized in the calendar] if it must stand still, let wives with child / Pray that their burdens may not fall this day |
| Sonn.59.4 | [of brains] labouring for invention bear amiss / The second burthen of a former child |
| Sonn.97.7 | [] The teeming autumn big with rich increase, / Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime |
| WT IV.iv.262 | [Autolycus to Mopsa, of a ballad] how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden |