Al be that I kan nat sowne his stile,
Ne kan nat clymben over so heigh a style,
Yet seye I this, as to commune entente:
Thus muche amounteth al that evere he mente,
If it so be that I have it in mynde.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Squire’s Tale. The Squire admits that he does not have the speaking ability of the exotic foreign knight. He could never climb so high a stile. But he hopes that he conveys the knight’s general meaning.