[656] Professor Manly gives scapetbryk as the reading of the edition of 1575; but in the copies in the Bodleian Library and in the British Museum the name is printed correctly.
Gammer Gurtons Nedle
The Prologue. A ii
As Gammer Gurton with manye a wyde styche
Sat pesynge and patching of Hodg her mans briche,
By chance or misfortune, as shee her geare tost,
In Hodge lether bryches her needle shee lost.