fatuitous (fatuitus)

[ We cry aloud for new avenues and consumers for the productions of our industry, and at the same time decline, with a fatuitous persistence, to take any step to obtain the one or to reach the other. Right fatte or dounged lande thai loveth best, Or valey ther hilles fatten e e hath rest. In the fatne of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.