Described as "the prototype of the goliardic songs" as well as "the masterpiece of the school", the best known poem of the Archpoet is his tenth, "", commonly called the Goliardic "Confession" (sometimes "", "" or "Confession of Golias"), a metrical composition of ironical tone wherein he confesses his love of women, gambling, and drinking. It is purported to have been written in Pavia around the year 1163 for his patron as a confession and defense of his sins after a rival of the Archpoet witnessed and subsequently reported his reprobate behavior. For example, the oft-cited twelfth stanza goes: