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Question
Explain:
Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
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Solution
In these lines the speaker says that says that he was brought honourably to the chair and with great pomp and show but now he is being taken very insultingly to the gallows. He says sometimes great heroes fall from their climax and die. Such has not happened to him. Had he died in the peak of his power, he would have been happy.
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