Hi,

It's a song made after the pattern of Scarborough Fair. One could imagine that someone wanting to express her feelings/spell might make up something like that.

However, I don't think it would be period: "Cambric" seemingly uses an extra syllable in the originals, but there's a reason for that. Cambric is linen from Cambrai, and as can be heard in the Dutch version of the name, "Kamerijk", the 'br' actually represented the remnants of a syllable. In the 17th century, I don't think a singer would have felt the need to add "fine" as a filler.

                                                                                                                                  Mysha