From Humphrey King's ‘An Halfe-penny-worthe of Wit, in a Penny-worth of Paper. Or, the Hermit's Tale’, published in 1613, p. 21 (STC 14973). The work is a homiletic dialogue in verse, part of which (pp. 16–21) is written in what is characterized as ‘Skeltons rime’. The comparison between Skelton and Robin Hood was a frequent one in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, cf., for example, Nos 3, 16.
But what meane I to runne so farre?
My foolish words may breed a skarre,
Let vs talke of Robin Hoode,
And little Iohn in merry Shirewood,
Of Poet Skelton with his pen,
And many other merry men,
Of May-game Lords, and Sommer Queenes,
With Milke-maides, dancing o're the Greenes….