John Trapp on Revelation 6:5

Verſe 5. A black horſe] Famine diſcolours and denigrates, Lam. 4.7, 8.Turk Hiſt. fol. 426. It accompanies war for moſt part, and in ſieges is very extreme, as at Samaria, where an aſſes head was worth four pounds: at Rome, where this proclamation was made in the market, Pone pretium humanae carni: At Scodra, where horſes were dainty meat, yea they were glad to eat dogs, cats, rats, &c. At Antioch in Syria, Ibid 18. where many Chriſtians (in the holy war, as they called it) were glad to eat the dead bodies of their late ſlain enemies. [non-Latin text not transcribed]

Had a pair of balances] Gr. The beam of ſcales. To ſhew that bread ſhould be delivered out by meaſure, as is threatned, Ezekiel 4.6. Deut. 26. and men ſhould be ſtinted and pittanced.