Green’s Dictionary of Slang

simon soon gone n.

a lazy servant.

c.1561

Awdeley Fraternitye of Vacabondes in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 13: Simon soone agon is he, that when his Mayster hath any thing to do, he wil hide him out of the way. This is a loytring knaue that wil hide him in a corner and sleepe or else run away.