For Perth and Blackney both are gone,
And I trow, it was paid by none.
The country ’round they did compel
Faggots to make and trees to fell.
The one built up, th’ other beat down,
Their noise was heard the country round.
Indeed hersel was loth to do it;
But on pain of death she was put to’t.
French engineers indeed they had,
Who order’d all to work like mad.