Calliope;
As ye may see,
Regent is she
Of poets all,
Which gave to me
The high degree
Laureate to be

 Calliope is the muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology and was often depicted holding copies of  The Iliad  or  The Odyssey  by Renaissance painters and sculptors. Skelton’s praise of Calliope in this poem, one of Skelton’s shortest, can be seen as ironic or self-deprecating.
Why were ye Calliope embrawdered with letters of golde ?