Twelfth night explores uncertainty and inconstancy in love. which set of lines in these excerpts from act ii, scene iv, shows that duke orsino considers men to be more easily swayed by passion than women? duke : too old, by heaven! let still the woman take an elder than herself; so wears she to him, so sways she level in her husband's heart. for, boy, however we do praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. … duke: there is no woman's sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion as love doth give my heart: no woman's heart so big to hold so much; they lack retention. alas, their love may be called appetite,— no motion of the liver, but the palate,— that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt; but mine is all as hungry as the sea, and can digest as much: make no compare between that love a woman can bear me and that i owe olivia.