This French verse, read aloud, sounds like an English nursery rhyme; which one?

Problem

This French verse, read aloud, sounds like an English nursery rhyme;
which one?

  Jacques s'apprête
   Coulis de nos fêtes.(1)
    Et soif que dites nos lignes.(2)
  Et ne sauve bédouine tempo(3) y aussi,
   Telle y que de plat terre, cligne.(4)

  1) _Coulis_, a sort of strained broth.  Jacques was either a sauce
     chef or an invalid.
  2) Jacques was also an alcoholic, since his thirst is beyond
     description.
  3) He was fond of Arab music.
  4) He believed the earth was flat.  The last word of the line, meaning
     "wink", is obviously a stage direction.  Poor Jacques, whoever he
     was, was obviously considered a fool.

[ Editor: From Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames.  The d'Antin Manuscript,
  edited and annotated by Luis d'Antin Van Rooten, Grossman Publishers,
  New York, 1967; reprinted as a Viking paperback.  The original
  posting uses TeX accents (s'appr\^ete, b\'edouine) and footnote marks
  $^1$ etc.; shown here as accented letters and (1) etc. ]