C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary

1. of the common people, plebeian 2H4 I. iii. 90 “the heart,” Cor. I. i. 221 “Five tribunes to defend their wisdoms,” II. i. 234 “ station” (=among the crowd), IV. vii. 21.

2. public Err. III. i. 100 “A comment,” Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 119, Sonn. cxii. 2 “vulgar scandal.”

3. commonly known or experienced Tw.N. III. i. 138 “a proof” (=common experience), Ham. I. ii. 99 “the most vulgar thing to sense.”

4. common to all John II. i. 387 “the air” ; in an unfavourable sense Ham. I. iii. 61 “Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.”