I am using \usepackage[norule]{footmisc}
to disable the horizontal rule separating my footnotes from the bodytext of my document.
However, I would like to keep this rule in the case that the top line of the footnote text is the continuation of a footnote that started on a previous page (for example, above the footnote text on page two of the following MWE).
Here's an MWE that produces a long footnote split across the first two pages:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[norule]{footmisc}
%lipsum package to automatically generate placeholder text
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]\footnote{\lipsum[2-7]}
\lipsum[2-10]
\end{document}