Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Scaped}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Scaping}.] [Aphetic form of escape.]
   To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton.

         Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.