In consideration of his love for Olivia, Orsino is not in love “so much with a woman [as he is] with his own idea of love” (Jenkins 77). This idea being his infatuation with himself paralleled with his attraction to Olivia’s exaggeration of mourning her brother’s death (Cahn 666). In Twelfth Night; Or What You Will, he imagines what will become of this love after receiving word from Valentine that Olivia will continue to lament her brother’s death for seven years. Orsino asks, “How will she love when the rich golden shaft Hath

As doth that orbed continent the fire

Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,

VIOLA: But if she cannot love you, sir?

Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.

ORSINO: I cannot be so answered.

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