Later editions of the Latin text were found in Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) and Thomas Wright's Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century (London, Rolls Series, No.
His journeys lead him through many places, including the university of Paris and the island of Thule, thus offering the author the opportunity for lavish satiric description, before the wanderer finally meets Nature.
Veniam quacumque remotos Abscondat secreta lares, odiique latentes Eliciam causas et rupti forsan amoris Restituam nodos.
Chapter X: "The pilgrim of that satire pays a visit to Paris, and describes the hardships of the students and the fruitlessness of their studies; he afterwards arrives at the hill of Presumption, which is the haunt of all manner of monks and ecclesiastics, as well as the great scholastic doctors and professors."
The buildings covered a considerable space of the modern quarter of the university; and the gardens, under the Merovingian kings, communicated with the abbey of St. Germain des Prés.
Explicat aula sinus montemque amplectitur alis Multiplici latebra scelerum tersura ruborem.... pereuntis saepe pudoris Celatura nefas, Venerisque accommoda furtis.The Hall spreads far the shelter of its sinuous passages and embraces the mountain with its wings.