sternhold and hopkins wrote almost all of their psalms in the "common" or ballad metre. their versions were quite widely circulated at the time; copies of the sternhold and hopkins psalter were bound with many editions of the geneva bible, and their versions of the psalms were used in many churches. the sternhold and hopkins psalter was also published with music, much of it borrowed from the french geneva psalter. one setting from their collection that has survived is the metrical form of the psalm 100 attributed to william kethe, with the tune known as the old 100th, often used as a doxology: