 The poem also contains elements of satire, especially towards court manners and clothing fashions.The history of "Richard the Redeless" has become heavily intertwined with another fifteenth-century poem, Mum and the Sothsegger.Indeed, John Bale (1495–1563), an important early antiquarian, identified what Skeat named "Richard the Redeless" as ""Mum, Soth-segger"".