Note 216 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
a play, where we saw most excellent Sampson, &c.] From Henslowe’s MSS. we learn that “Sampson, by Samuel Rowley and Edw. Iubye,” was acted in July 1602: see Malone’s Shakespeare (by Boswell), vol. iii. p. 327. To this drama (which has not come down to us) Middleton perhaps alludes.