Mature Intercourse
There are comparisons to explorations of "sea-discoverers" and "maps" (12, thirteen) that remind us of the historical context of the world the poem is about in.
The world John Donne lived in was a world of explorers setting sail for the New World within the West to find and conquer new lands.

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