To make into a bale.
A pack of goods prepared for transportation.
Calamity; ruin; sorrow; wo.
A love that is to be had like a bale of goods is not exactly the love to suit my taste. – John Bull on the Guadalquivir from Tales from all Countries by Anthony Trollope
Loose thy shaft at that bale, and I loose this at thy throat. – The Sea-Hawk by Raphael Sabatini