Sir Walter Raleigh wrote some well crafted verses which I suspect may have been used to make songs. He also wrote (in prose) a moving Last Will addressed to his wife, which could perhaps be usable in a reenactment..

This shouldn't be confused with an entertaining piece entitled My Last Will, which is sometimes ascribed to him, but was actually written by a 19th/20th century professor and writer with the same name - who also wrote the immortal lines

I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

As for Sir Walter Raleigh's alleged unpopularity at the time, and the implication in the Golden Vanity version that he could be pretty cold blooded and treacherous, there might have been good grounds for it. One of the charges at his trial involved his role in a remarkably brutal massacre of hundreds of rebels in Ireland who had surrendered on a promise of their lives being spared. His defence was that he was only obeying orders....