the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > conceive in fancy [verb (transitive)] > affect with fancy
befancy1567
vapour1698
1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 110v For euerie point I was Befancide well.
1610 G. FletcherChrist's Vict. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1847) 64 How thou befanciest the men most wise.