The history tells that when Don Quixote called out to Sancho to bring him his helmet, Sancho was buying some curds the shepherds agreed to sell him, and flurried by the great haste his master was in did not know what to do with them or what to carry them in; so, not to lose them, for he had already paid for them, he thought it best to throw them into his master's helmet, and acting on this bright idea he went to see what his master wanted with him. He, as he approached, exclaimed to him:
Cuenta la historia que cuando don Quijote daba voces a Sancho que le trujese el yelmo, estaba él comprando unos requesones que los pastores le vendían; y, acosado de la mucha priesa de su amo, no supo qué hacer dellos, ni en qué traerlos, y, por no perderlos, que ya los tenía pagados, acordó de echarlos en la celada de su señor, y con este buen recado volvió a ver lo que le quería; el cual, en llegando, le dijo: