Definition of "beleive"

“I am come my amiable Rebecca, to take my leave of you for the fortnight I am destined to spend with my aunt. Beleive me this separation is painfull to me, but it is as neceſsary as the labour which now engages you.”

, [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter III, page 9