When Don Quixote had quite appeased his appetite he took a fist acorn in his hand, and contemplating them attentively delivered himself somewhat in this fashion.
- Happy the age, happy those whom the ancients gave the name of golden, not because of them gold, in this our iron age well is believed to be achieved at that fortunate without toil, but because they that lived in it knew the two words "yours and mine. Were in that blessed age all things common. No one was required to achieve the daily food to take another job to raise your hand and gather it from the sturdy oaks that stood generously inviting him with their sweet ripe fruit. The clear streams and running brooks, in great abundance, tasty and transparent offered them water. In the clefts of the rocks and hollows of trees were their republic bees caring, giving every hand, without interest, the plenteous produce of their fragrant toil. The mighty oaks goodbye to each other, with no other artifice than his courtesy, his broad light bark that began to cover the houses supported by rude stakes, no more for the defense of inclement sky. Then all was peace, all friendship, all concord. Still had not dared the heavy grating or curved plow to open the tender bowels of our first mother that without compulsion yielded from every parts of its fertile bosom, which could satiate, sustain, and delight the children that then possessed. Then was it that the simple and beautiful petticoat from valley to valley and hill to hill, with braided hair and no more garments than were needful modestly to cover what modesty seeks and ever sought to be covered, and Nor were their ornaments like those now used, to whom the Tyrian purple, and silk tortured in many ways more expensive, but with some green leaves of burdock and ivy intertwined, so they went as bravely and made as they agora our courtesans with the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has taught them. Then he decorated the clothed themselves love, pure and simple soul, be of the same mode and manner conceived them without looking contrived words to express rodeo. There was no fraud, deceit or malice mixed with truth and sincerity. Justice was in her own words, without the dare to disturb or offend the favor and of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her. Arbitrary law had not yet been settled in the mind of the judge, because then there was that judge, or who were judged. Maidens and modesty, as I have said, wandered, alone and Sener, without fear that the ease and lewd intent outside the impairment and his downfall was born of his own will and pleasure. And now in this our hateful age is not safe, not even the obscure and new labyrinth like that of Crete, for there, through openings or by air, with the zeal of its accursed, they enter the pestilence and makes love to with all his devotion to fret. For their safety, as time advanced and wickedness increased, it instituted an order of knights errant, to defend maidens, to protect widows and help the orphans and the needy. This order I belong, brother goatherds, who appreciate the kindness and hospitality that you do to me and my squire. That, although natural law are all living obliged to favor the knights-errant, yet, you know that without knowing this obligation and regalastes acogistes me is why, with the possible will to me, thank you yours.
All this long harangue, which may well excuse, our knight delivered because the acorns they gave him brought to mind the golden age, and the whim seized to make this unnecessary argument to the goatherds, without answering him a word, spellbound and suspended, we were listening. Sancho provided himself said nothing and ate acorns, and visited very often the second wine-skin, which, because the wine cool, had hung on a cork.
