Believe it or not, I tend to adde E-s to the ends of wordes without thinking, much to the consternation of not a few people...

Yf onlye I hadde done itt purpofefullie!

Found it!

1. Why fumeth in sight: the Gentils spite,
In fury raging stout?
Why taketh in hond: the people fond,
Uayne thinges to bring about?

2. The kinges arise: the lordes deuise,
in counsayles mett therto:
Agaynst the Lord: with false accord,
against his Christ they go.

3. Let vs they say: breake downe their ray,
of all their bondes and cordes:
We will renounce: that they pronounce,
their loores as stately lordes.

4. But God of might: in heauen so bright,
Shall laugh them all to scorne:
The Lord on hie: shall them defie,
they shall be once forlorne.

5. Then shall his ire: speake all in fire,
to them agayne therfore:
He shall with threate: their malice beate,
in his displeasure sore.

6. Yet am I set: a king so great,
on Sion hill full fast:
Though me they kill: yet will that hill,
my lawe and worde outcast.

7. Gods wordes decreed: I (Christ) wil sprede
for God thus sayd to me/e:
My sonne I say: thou art, this day,
I haue begotten the/e.

8. Aske thou of me/e: I will geue the/e,
to rule all Gentils londes:
Thou shalt possesse: in suernesse,
the world how wide it stondes.

9. With iron rod: as mighty God,
all rebels shalt thou bruse:
And breake them all: in pieces small,
as sherdes the potters vse.

10. Be wise therfore: ye kinges the more,
Receyue ye wisdomes lore:
Ye iudges strong: of right and wrong,
aduise you now before.

11. The Lorde in feare: your seruice beare,
with dread to him reioyce:
Let rages be: resist not ye,
him serue with ioyfull voyce.

12. The sonne kisse ye: lest wroth he be,
lose not the way of rest:
For when his ire: is set on fire,
who trust in hym be blest.

Looks like sight to me in what purports to be the original:

Interestingly, the word is spelled differently in each part.

I new it'd only be a matter of time 'til someone posted something in iambic pentameter!

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The often very low literary quality of a lot of these metrical psalms makes one realize why the hymns of Charles Wesley (and, somewhat, Dr. Watts) so revolutionized sung religious poetry in English.

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There's John Mason's How Shall I Sing that Majesty.

This video has a choir sing the first stanza:

How shall I sing that Majesty
Which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie;
Sing, sing, ye heavenly choir.
Thousands of thousands stand around
Thy throne, O God most high;
Ten thousand times ten thousand sound
Thy praise; but who am I?

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I am no scholar but, for what it is worth, the word ´fight´ seems appropriate for ´fremuerunt´, since one of the meanings of fremere' is ´to roar´. It is only speculation on my part, but a printer setting type from a handwritten document, unaware of the context, might have mistaken an ´f´ for the long ´s´, which was still in use in English at the time of Thomas Tallis. In Latin, ´quare fremuerunt gentes´ is, of course, third person plural, whilst the English -´(e)th´ inflexion is more commonly thought of as third person singular. It could also be plural. At an earlier stage of English, the inflexion -´(e)th (´ð´/´þ´ - the difference in pronunciation is, broadly, the difference between ´thin and ´the´, although it varied with position) was a third person singular or an all plural inflexion.

Moreover, alliteration in the first verse, with ´fight´ adds weight to its use, I think:

Fumeth/Fight/Fury

takeTH/THe/THings

MHI, thanks so much! Do you know the name of the book that the original came from, I'd be interested to look it up.

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