What is the meaning of the phrase "I run before my horse to market"? to be extremely busy to make devious plans to be in denial to be very impatient to speak too soon

A). To be extremely busy.

Explanation:

As per the question, the meaning of the phrase 'I run before my horse to market' would be 'to extremely busy'. It implies that one is so busy that he/she is running ahead of horse to get his/her jobs accomplished on time. In the given excerpt, the speaker is in extreme hurry and thus, running ahead of time to reach on time to reach his love and apologize for the mistakes by becoming her father and husband. Therefore, option A correctly relates to the context of the phrase while the other options (B, C, and D) are irrelevant to the context and thus, fail to convey the intended meaning of the phrase. Thus, option A is the correct answer.