sentences:  Q2 also states that the play had been acted at Court before King James I the previous "New Year's night".A third edition followed in 1616, printed by Eld for the stationer Thomas Langley; the title page assigns the authorship to "T. Middleton".Two decades after its authorship, Philip Massinger used "A Trick to Catch the Old One" as a model for his most popular play, "A New Way to Pay Old Debts", premiered in 1626 and published in 1633.