Prigged

• Prigged: slang term for "stolen." The preceding passage, from line 2 onward, was taken bodily (if modified) from Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist of the Young Man (Chapter 4):

"Like a scene on some vague arras, old as man's weariness, the image of the seventh city of Christendom was visible to him across the timeless air, no older nor more weary nor less patient of subjection than in the days of the thingmote."