sentences:  There too Momus and Mercury draw up a plan to reform the 'Star Chamber' of Heaven.Two centuries on, it was to influence Henry David Thoreau as he was preparing to write his Walden.John Dryden's short "Secular Masque" (1700) mocks contemporary society through the medium of the Classical divinities, with Momus playing a leading part in deflating with sarcastic wit the sports represented by Diana (hunting), Mars (war), and Venus (love), for "'Tis better to laugh than to cry".