May Marriages

It so happened that yesterday I had both a Colonial Bishop and a Home Archdeacon taking part in the services of my church, and visiting at my house; and, by a singular coincidence, both had been solicited by friends to perform the marriage ceremony not later than to-morrow, because in neither case would the bride-elect submit to be married in the month of May. I find that it is a common notion amongst ladies, that May marriages are unlucky. Can any one inform me whence this prejudice arose? [This superstition is as old as Ovid's time, who tells us in his *Fasti*, "Nec viduæ tædis eadem, nec vi…