I agree, and I suspect a lot of the suggestions given in these comments is post-facto reasoning. At one time as I'm sure you know, while Middle English was quite well established, Latin was the "Lingua Franca" of the "civilized" world due to the institutional networks of the Church and the university. Plenty of flat and embarrassing Latin, which we still have, was written at this time (with a number of its classical features modified), that could provide much fodder for a similar article some 900 years ago. Were it to have gone on, and had English died out, leaving us with few examples other than Beowulf, the memoirs of elite regents, letters between statesmen and the like, we might have another impression altogether.

Instead, Imperial England left on the world a linguistic legacy to which we adhere out of convenience of circumstance, and probably will for the long foreseeable future: "learn once, enjoy commerce and education everywhere!"