The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85.

The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xi. Line 394.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

Arthur Murphy (1727-1805): Zenobia. Act v.

Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,

Both the great vulgar and the small.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Horace. Book iii. Ode 1.