In the Lord Timon of the Shakspere piece, which was rewritten from an _Academic_ original after Raleigh's consignment to the Tower,--in that fierce satire into which so much Elizabethan bitterness is condensed, under the difference of the reckless prodigality which is stereotyped in the fable, we get, in the earlier scenes, some glimpses of this 'Athenian' also, in this stage of his career. But it was not as a _Patron_ only, or chiefly, that he aided the new literary development. A scholar, a scholar so earnest, so indefatigable, it followed of course that he must be, in one form or another, an Instructor also; for that is still, under all conditions, the scholar's destiny--it is still, in one form or another, his business on the earth. But with that temperament which was included among the particular conditions of his genius, and with those special and particular endowments of his for another kind of intellectual mastery, he could not be content with the pen--with the Poet's, or the Historian's, or the Philosopher's pen--as the instrument of his mental dictation. A Teacher thus furnished and ordained, seeks, indeed, naturally and instinctively, a more direct and living and effective medium of communication with the audience which his time is able to furnish him, whether 'few' or many, whether 'fit' or unfit, than the book can give him. He must have another means of 'delivery and tradition,' when the delivery or tradition is addressed to those whom he would associate with him in his age, to work with him as one man, or those to whom he would transmit it in other ages, to carry it on to its perfection--those to whom he would communicate his own highest view, those whom he would inform with his patiently-gathered lore, those whom he would _instruct_ and move with his new inspirations. For the truth has become a personality with him--it is his nobler self. He will live on with it. He will live or die with it.