Calliope;
As ye may see,
Regent is she
Of poets all,
Which gave to me
The high degree
Laureate to be
Of fame royal;
Whose name enrolled
With silk and gold
I dare be bold
Thus for to wear.
Of her I hold
And her household;
Though I wax old

 Skelton himself created a character named Colin Cloute to mock typical and popular complaints against his poetry. The character describes his own Skeltonic verse as “ragged, tattered and jagged, rain-beaten, rusty and moth eaten.” 
 So as you can see, it’s quite bold for the developer of Skeltonic verse, a form of poetry that uses less than six words per line and was often looked down upon as “simple” or less than elegant, to wear the name of the muse who inspired monumental works by  Homer  and other classical Greek poets.
Why were ye Calliope embrawdered with letters of golde ?