Wroth with

• played siege to → wroth with
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• rot → cf. the beginning of the next sentence

• Rot: (German) red

• Roth: Samuel Roth, who piratically published parts of Work in Progress (i.e. FW) in Two Worlds → Roth is a common Jewish surname (cf. Esther, Sesthers)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• wroth: angry

• Ruth: eponymous character in the Biblical Book of Ruth; like Swift's Stella & Vanessa, she is the subject of an older man's advances
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• wrought ?