...that he will stay as Hermione's guest, not her prisoner, to which Hermione replies: "Not your jailer then, / But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question...of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys." The period between "hostess" and "Come" marks a clear halt followed by a new beginning, and it provides...

...his rage in Act 1, Scene 2. Polixenes, on the other hand, describes youth as a kind of immortality: We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was...such a day tomorrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. (1.2. 16 Paul Harvey cites the story of Demeter's arrival in the guise of an old woman at the court...

...than as a mere preparation for adult friendship, as Polixenes' first lines on the subject make clear: We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was...a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. (i. ii. 62—5) This is a vision of friendship which is outside time and therefore outside the economy...