Sancho Panza kept on drinking......!

Long after setting out on his first adventures, Don Quixote is invited to share a frugal meal with a group goatherds. A little meat strew, hard cheese, plenty of wine. When they finish, the goatherds spread out a quantity of acorns and start cracking them upon for desert. All except Don Quixote, who just rolls them in his hand, lost in reverie. He clears his throat. "Fortunate the age and fortunate the time called golden by the ancients," he tells the chewing peasants. There was no mine or thine, no farms, no making of farm tools, no makers of farm tools. Modest shepherdesses simply attired roamed the hills unmolested, stopping only to hear the spontaneous, unaffected by poetry of their chaste lovers. No laws were enforced because none were needed.

The age ended. Why? The goatherds do not ask and Quixote doesn't burden them with his esoteric knowledge. He just reminds them of what they already know, which is that now maidens and even orphans are not safe from predators. When the Golden Age ended, laws became necessary; but since there were no pure hearts left to enforce them, the strong and vicious were free to terrorize the weak and good. That was why the order of knights was created in the Middle Ages, and why Quixote has resolved to revive it in modern times. The goatherds listen in "stupefied and perplexed" silence to this old man in his papier-mache helmet. Sancho Panza, already used to his master's harangues, just keeps drinking. ~ Page 132