Brewer's: Have a Mind for it

(To). To desire to possess it; to wish for it. Mind = desire, intention, is by no means uncommon: “I mind to tell him plainly what I think.” (2 Henry VI., act iv. 1.) “I shortly mind to leave you.” (2 Henry VI., act iv. 1.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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