Owing to this circumstance and to the fact that his very regular metre leaves no doubt as to his grammatical forms, this otherwise uninviting poem has a high philological value.

In my book entitled _The Chaucer Canon_, published at Oxford in 1900, I quote 78 long lines from the _Ormulum_, reduced to a simpler system of spelling, at pp.

9-14; and, at pp.

15-18, I give an analysis of the suffixes employed by Orm to mark grammatical inflexions.

At pp.