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# Book 33.
HE PASSES ON TO HIS YOUTH; BEGINNING FROM HIS SIXTEENTH YEAR; WHEN HAVING LAID ASIDE HIS STUDIES, HE INDULGED HIS APPETITES, AND WITH HIS COMPANIONS COMMITTED THEFT.
## CHAPTER I.
*He deplores the sins of his youth.*
I DESIRE now to call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; recalling my most wicked ways in the bitterness of my remembrance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me; (Thou sweetness never failing, Thou blessed and tranquil sweetness); and gathering me again out of that my dissipation, wherein I was torn piecemeal, while turned away from Thy Unity, I lost myself among many things. For I even burnt in my youth heretofore, to be satiated in things below; and I dared to grow wild with various and shadowy loves: “my beauty consumed away,” and I was loathly in Thine eyes; pleasing myself, and desirous to please the eyes of men.
## CHAPTER II.
*In the deepest grief he recalls the sensual indulgences of his sixteenth year.*
AND what was it that I delighted in, but to love, and be beloved? but the measure of mind to mind, such as is the shining boundary of friendship, was not kept; but out of the muddy desire of the flesh, and the overflow of youth, mists were given off which clouded and overcast my heart, so that the clear brightness of love could not be distin-
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