The twentieth of May was said to be the luckiest day of the summer for lovers to marry. Forster quoted an old ballad from a collection called Bighthelmstone’s Fancies, in which a lover brings his Harriet roses, violets and sweetbriar and urges her to wed on that day.
The lucky twentieth of May
20 May · England
Lore and belief
Of the three Simmer months they say, / The most of luck is the twenty o' May,
From Forster's Perennial Calendar, p. 242. Read the original
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