Definition of "hither"

SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]

But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.

1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 30