ppl. a. Obs. Also 4 wel bigoo. [See BEGO v. 8.]
1. Well-contented, cheerful, joyous.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 693. I was neuer … So iolyf nor so wel bigoo Ne merye in herte as I was thoo. Ibid. (c. 1381), Parlt. Foules, 171. But lord, so I was glad and wel begoon.
2. Fortunate, well off.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 294. Yif me youre hond, for yn his world is noon, if þat you lyst, a wyght so wel begon.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 5533. And certeyn he is wel bigone Among a thousand that fyndith oon.
1421–2. Hoccleve, Min. Poems, xx. 11. How welthye a man be or well be-gone, Endure it shall not.
1530. Palsgr., 844/1. Well bygone, bien a poynt, or bien ayse.
