sentences:  By this period, then, Momus was the patron of humorous satire, partnering the figures of comedy and tragedy.As such he appeared flanked by these female figures on the frontispiece to "The Beauties of the English Stage" (1737), while in Leonard Defraine's "Figures of Fabled Gods" (1820), he partners Comus, god of Carnival, and Themis, patroness of assemblies.Because of the Harlequin connection, too, and as the character able to make home-truths palatable through the use of humour, Momus had now taken the place of the Fool on a French Minchiate card pack.