The shortest distance between the first two points you describe on the surface of a sphere is an arc whose maximum latitude is greater than the latitude of the arc described by the second two points at some longitude.
If you want to draw a polygon on the sphere whose Mercator projection approximates a large rectangle, you'll need to specify a large number of intermediate points.
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