Mei fjouwer neilen Met vier spijkers

So waynat an skriet thet vnierich kind and wepet thenne sine nakene lithe and sin huslase an sinne feder , ther him reda scholde with then hunger and then niwelkalda winter, thet hi sa diape and alsa dimme mith fior neilum is vnder eke and vnder ther molda bisleten and bithacht. Sa mot thio moder hire kindis erue seta and sella, therumbe thet hiu ach ple and plicht, alsa longe sa hit vngerich is , thet hit noder frost ne hunger ne in fangenschip vrfare.

Ca. 1440 ( Oudfries uit de huidige provincie Groningen)