_Scogan and Skelton_, 1600, a play by Richard Hathwaye and William Rankins, is mentioned in Henslowe’s MSS.: see Malone’s _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 324.
Notices of Skelton may also be found in:—
_A Dialogue bothe pleasaunt and pietifull, wherein is a godlie regiment against the Feuer Pestilence, with a consolation and comforte againste death. Newlie corrected by William Bullein, the authour thereof._ 1573, 8vo. Of this piece I have seen only the above ed.: but it appeared originally in 1564. It contains notices of several poets, introduced by way of interlude or diversion in the midst of a serious dialogue; and (at p. 17) Skelton is described as sitting “in the corner of a Piller, with a frostie bitten face, frownyng,” and “writyng many a sharpe Disticons” against Wolsey—
“How the Cardinall came of nought, And his Prelacie solde and bought,” &c.
(15 verses chiefly made up from Skelton’s works).—_The Rewarde of Wickednesse, discoursing the sundrye monstrous abuses of wicked and vngodly Wordelings_, &c. _Newly compiled by Richard Robinson, seruaunt in householde to the right honorable Earle of Shrewsbury_, &c. 4to, n. d. (The Address to the Reader dated 1574), at sig. Q 2.—_A Discourse of English Poetrie_, &c., _By William Webbe, Graduate_, 1586, 4to, at sig. c iii.—_The Arte of English Poesie_, &c. (attributed to one Puttenham: but see D’Israeli’s _Amen. of Lit._ ii. 278, sqq.), 1589, 4to, at pp. 48, 50, 69.—_Fovre Letters, and certaine Sonnets: Especially touching Robert Greene_, &c. (by Gabriell Harvey), 1592, 4to, at p. 7.—_Pierces Supererogation or a New Prayse of the Old Asse_, &c. [by] _Gabriell Haruey_, 1593, 4to, at p. 75.—_Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasvry Being the Second part of Wits Commonwealth. By Francis Meres_, &c., 1598, 12mo, at p. 279.—_Virgidemiarvm. The three last Bookes. Of byting Satyres_ (by Joseph Hall), 1598, 12mo, at p. 83.—_The Downfall of Robert Earle of Huntington, Afterward called Robin Hood of merrie Sherwodde_, &c. (by Anthony Munday), 1601, 4to. In this play, which is supposed to be a rehearsal previous to its performance before Henry the Eighth, Skelton acts the part of Friar Tuck.—In _The Death of Robert, Earle of Hvntington_, &c. (by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle), 1601, 4to, which forms a Second Part to the drama just described, Skelton, though his name is not mentioned throughout it, is still supposed to act the Friar.—_Miscellanea_, written out by “Joħnes Mauritius” between 1604 and 1605—_MS. Reg. 12. B._ v.—contains (at fol. 14), and attributes to Skelton, a well-known indelicate _jeu d’esprit._—_Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap._ _Tis a mad world at Hogsdon_, 1609, 4to. Besides a notice of Skelton, this poem contains two long quotations from his _Elynour Rummyng_.—_Cornv-copiæ. Pasquils Night-Cap: Or Antidot for the Head-ache_ (by Samuel Rowlands), 1612, 4to, at sig. O 2 and sig. Q 3. The second notice of Skelton in this poem is as follows;